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Compared to Mount Everest, the Sahara is a sultan's garden and the Amazon jungle is a farmer's meadow. At its summit, the highest point on earth, 29,028 ft. above sea level, spores have trouble surviving. The hardiest of mountain creatures-the snow leopard, the lammergeier vulture-stay clear of its bitter cold (down to -50°F.) and raging gales (up to 150 m.p.h.), and even the Abominable Snowman-whatever he is-confines his ambulations to the Tibetan plateau, 12,000 ft. below. Transported suddenly to its upper ridges, without an oxygen mask, a healthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mountain Climbing: Up to the Gods | 5/10/1963 | See Source »

...fairly long period, 100 years or so. Yet a good paper entails concentrating on a very limited topic over a very short time. Only a comprehensive final examination can require students to integrate the whole range of facts in the course. It is not surprising that some of the hardiest supporters of examinations come from the History Department...

Author: By Clark Woodroe, | Title: Final Exams or Term Papers? | 6/14/1962 | See Source »

There's some nonsense in liberalism. It's often bigoted, narrow-minded. I'm a sort of tough Democrat." Old Foxy Grandpa. Frost has always been one of the hardiest barnstormers in the academic world, but his pace has quickened to a sprint since the inauguration. He has taped radio interviews and allowed himself to be filmed for a movie documentary. He went to Israel for ten days as the guest of Hebrew University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Poet Laureate (Robert Frost) | 3/30/1962 | See Source »

...their operators admitted they did not know they were supposed to be using any." Restaurants in cities were worse than those in small towns, where a slower pace helps keep utensils clean: more time is spent washing dishes, and many dishes are used so seldom that all but the hardiest species of bacteria simply die on the shelf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Dirty Glass | 3/2/1962 | See Source »

...countries behind the Iron Curtain, Poland has most successfully kept alive its cultural ties with the West. One of the hardiest roots has been the long Polish tradition of abstract art, some of whose practitioners date their conversions back to the days of early cubism and Russian constructivism. Even six years of Nazi occupation failed to eradicate it; a 1945 victory exhibition in Cracow abounded in fantastic expressionist and nonobjective canvases. Though this first frantic flowering was followed by a wintery decade of tough Stalinist socialist realism, Polish painters worked in secret. "For the mass of the people, the stumbling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Polish Moderns | 8/4/1961 | See Source »

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