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Bible Principles. But in the past year a new positive attitude has been evident. Says Pedagogy Professor Karl Frankenstein of Hebrew University: "This has been most striking in their changed approach to new immigrants . . . Cynicism and sterile nationalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A New Judaism? | 9/14/1953 | See Source »

What separates Cabinet from the Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man class is its bizarre scenery, which is alone worth the admission. The sets are meant to appear painted, and their designers did not try to imitate reality; rather they depicted a mental world furbished by a madman. The prologue calls it "impressionistic," but it must be seen, not described...

Author: By Robert J. Schorenberg, | Title: Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and The Last Laugh | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

...increasing victimization -see the charred black corpse swinging at every crossroad!-or to brake the suicidal careering of its production-and-profit-mad economy toward the imperialistic enslavement of all peoples, total war, and an apocalyptic holocaust and collapse . . . It is, in essence, the myth of the Frankenstein monster, the machine built to be man's slave, and which enslaved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE FREE AMERICAN CITIZEN, 1952 | 9/8/1952 | See Source »

...three critics, one was a bit bewitched, one bothered and one bewildered. Wrote the San Francisco Chronicle's Alfred Frankenstein: "[Partch's] score-fragmentary, subdued, elusive-vastly enhanced the . . . ominous tension of the tragedy." The Oakland Tribune man found it all "rather horrendous, and Sophocles came out low man on the totem pole." Wrote the San Francisco Call-Bulletin's critic: "There is both solid merit and miscalculation . . . judge it for yourself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Goblin Music? | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

...group ran into trouble from the beginning, Frankenstein stated, in determining how to get an accurate cross-section of students. They were undecided whether it was better to get all 300 testees from one house, or several from all the houses. The latter plan was chosen and every fourth junior was selected. This random method of selection will give the most accurate cross-section...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Medical School Studies College Man | 1/19/1952 | See Source »

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