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...then yowl "Mama" when run down. You are breeding a race of monsters, nurtured in a diseased way of life that is based upon atom bombs, crime comics, bad movies and the cult of the almighty dollar . . . This is what you want to foist upon the world . . . You fool only your own "booboisie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 20, 1954 | 9/20/1954 | See Source »

...males whom men forget and only tailors remember, the girl who sits high above the town in her pet pailletted gown, deep in the depths on the 90th floor. Sometimes, love can be as fiercely direct, almost formal, as an angry letter: "Don't you know, little fool, you never can win? Use your mentality! Wake up to reality!" And occasionally, in a kind of straight, asphalt lyricism, Porter can out-hammer even Hammerstein in the game of simplicity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Great Ear-Wiggler | 9/13/1954 | See Source »

...tougher followers drove him half-crazy simply by knowing that he was incapable of being the man he pretended to be. When the Duce tried to conduct the Ethiopian war from his office chair, Marshal Badoglio only growled: "What fool in Rome is telegraphing this rubbish to me?" and curtly cabled back: "Leave me alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: De-Caesarizing Benito | 8/23/1954 | See Source »

...fool-the-eye realist, Albright paints each object in the light most flattering to it. To paint the whole picture in a single light would make it "static," he believes. Another Albright idea 5 to paint different objects at different angles. He will turn the canvas upside down to paint a bottle on a bureau, then turn it sidewise to paint the bureau. At first glance, everything in his pictures seems well anchored in space; at a second glance things start spinning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: NOT NICE, BUT NOT UNIQUE | 8/9/1954 | See Source »

...pack in small parcels has always been the hallmark of a fool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: From the Pen of N | 8/9/1954 | See Source »

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