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...life into a corner. The snort and belch of automobiles punctuate the old serenity of Walden. and the yelps of children, followed by the cries of their parents, have all but enveloped the summer-soft days. Across the whole expanse of the U.S., the wildernesses where once only the hardiest of outdoorsmen trod now shuddered under the invasion of hundreds of thousands of families hungering for a summertime skirmish with nature. Smitten by the call of the not-so-wild, these families were happily engaged in a great and grow-inp national pastime-camping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: Ah, Wilderness? | 7/14/1961 | See Source »

...hardiest swim enthusiasts got in line before 7 a.m., but most students joined the crowd at about 8:30, and stood patiently for over an hour while a single ticket window waited on one customer per minute. Average progress in the line was about 75 feet during the first hour, though one sophomore boasted of advancing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 2,000 Students Battle For Yale Meet Tickets | 2/28/1961 | 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: Exams, Final Papers--Or Revise The System | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

...with each, and spliced the scenes into the picture whenever it started to get dull. For the first two hours the technique works almost as well as it did in ATW180D, but Pepe goes on and on and on (for 3 hr. 15 min.) until even the hardiest celebrity chaser may get tired of the face-dropping. Just screening the titles takes so long that many a viewer will have finished his first box of popcorn before the action starts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures | 1/2/1961 | See Source »

Head & Heart. It would have taken all his patience to follow his changing fortunes after death. While Delacroix hailed him as "one of the hardiest innovators in the history of painting," others denounced his classicism as cold, almost lifeless. But in an age of facile painters who were more interested in mannered effects than content, he restored discipline and purity to art. "From the hand of the painter," he said, "must come no line not previously formed in the mind." It was a lesson for which everyone from Ingres to Cezanne was to express gratitude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Great Disciplinarian | 7/18/1960 | See Source »

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