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...Glue. First step in the delicate process of retrieving the papyrus intact is to spray the mummy with hot diluted hydrochloric acid. In about ten minutes most of the plaster dissolves, and the wad of papyrus that is left is laid on a wire tray over a tank of steaming water. It poaches there for a while, gradually softening as the papyrologists encourage the process and separate the stuff with delicate tweezings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paleography: Menander & the Mummy | 10/11/1963 | See Source »

...cannot recognize his country in it, and that is exactly what I feel about the Yearbook. Their Harvard, thank God, is not mine. But perhaps in the next two weeks it will come to be everybody's, for the principle of yearbooks is that at the end a maudlin glue shuts everybody's eyes to memory; we may even be ready to adopt third-hand, third-rate interpretations of our experience...

Author: By Robert W. Gordon, | Title: 327 | 6/3/1963 | See Source »

...East Coast--at least for your better class of compounds. The better class, of course, is composed of the hallucinogens or psychedelics, those recently popularized substances which are less harmful than such narcotics of ill repute as opium and heroin, more fashionable than such gauche inebriants as airplane glue and laughing gas, and, in their effect, the closest things yet to fulfilling Aldous Huxley's prophecy of a drug having "all the advantages of Christianity and alcohol with none of the disadvantages...

Author: By Josiah LEE Auspitz, | Title: The Harvard Review | 5/27/1963 | See Source »

Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). This one is about a quarter horse who nearly goes to the glue factory but ends up winning prizes. Repeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: May 24, 1963 | 5/24/1963 | See Source »

...picture. Any donkey could have written the script ("These horses are very unique in the world"). The supporting players (Lilli Palmer. Curt Jurgens. Eddie Albert) are obviously off their feed. And Actor Taylor-well, frankly, a horse that acts the way he does would instantly be shipped to the glue factory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Last of the War Horses | 4/12/1963 | See Source »

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