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...Bayar) upset the old Republican People's Party (TIME, May 22), strange things have happened to the Turks. This week U.S. Air Secretary Thomas K. Finletter and aides dropped in for a quick look. He would find a country of energy and action, of democratic ferment and confusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Thanks to Aid & Allah | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

...Would it be possible," asked the note in the student suggestion box at Oxford's oldest women's college, "to serve beer in hall?" The note put Lady Margaret Hall in a ferment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Ferment at Oxford | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

...general, with those modern American poets who seem to be more interested in talking to other people (though sometimes only to other poets) than in talking to themselves. Moreover, 62-year-old John Ransom has cast an increasingly larger shadow over three decades of U S writing history. The "ferment of his ideas in the heads of his old pupils" (a phrase Ransom applies to Aristotle) has had acknowledged results. Some of his ex-pupils: Robert Penn Warren, Robert Lowell Randall Jarrell, Allen Tate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Contribution to Poetry | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

Poet Ransom keeps his own ideas in ferment, too; he is seldom satisfied with what he writes. He thinks he will publish some more verse some day-"But it will not be exactly more of the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Contribution to Poetry | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

Western influence-both as progress and as ferment-is most conspicuous in the capital, Teheran (pop. almost 1,000,000). Some sections have wide boulevards and modernistic buildings; in others, narrow streets run between mud-brick hovels. Cadillacs and ratty taxis run through swarms of wailing peddlers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Land of Insecurity | 2/5/1951 | See Source »

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