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...incredibly big function," Winter passionately argues. "We can no longer perceive our world purely optically. Matter itself disintegrates into ever smaller particles. Atoms are smashed, time and space eliminated as barriers. The world has become transparent; we look through trees and know that a piece of iron is in hectic movement. I must, therefore, try with color and form to give expression to this world, my world, just as Renaissance painters did to theirs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Notes from Underground | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

...Carlos Muniz. After breakfast Kubitschek bade farewell to his host, and raced back to the Brazilian commercial airliner that had brought him from Rio. Stops ahead on his preinauguration tour: Washington, New York, London, Paris, Bonn, Brussels, The Hague, Rome, the Vatican, Madrid, Lisbon-all in 17 hectic days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: President-Elect | 1/16/1956 | See Source »

...team hardly kept its fingers crossed Wednesday in beating Dartmouth, or in the earlier hectic victory over Providence College. At center on the first line, Roddy Dashnaw, who played under Fullerton two years ago at Southside School, scored three against the Green. He is the Bruins' leading goal getter...

Author: By Gavin R. W. scott, | Title: Varsity Hockey Team Meets Brown Tomorrow at Watson | 1/13/1956 | See Source »

Looking back at his hectic travels from the dead calm of a comfortable hospital bed and a milk-and-cream diet, Batlle Berres had a philosophical thought on U.S. hospitality: "Everywhere I went," he smiled, "people gave me Scotch and water. I had to go to the hospital to find out how good this country's milk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Too Much Hospitality | 12/26/1955 | See Source »

Your Oct. 31 article on heart disease was excellent, but apt to mislead a good many people in various ways. You make out that our hectic way of life is the cause of it. The reason for our high percentage of deaths from heart disease is that we are very long-living people. The older a person is when he dies, the more likely he is to die of heart disease. You make out that we Americans have the highest percentage of deaths from heart disease of any country in the world. The Australians claim to be the laziest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 21, 1955 | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

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