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...directness. Au Bout on d'Or (see cut) looked static at first glance, but it had just the sexy-sweet, penny-arcade nostalgia she was trying for: the memory of summer nights when it is too hot to pull the shades and the city turns into a bright hive of private worlds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Paris in the Spring | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

Wagner: Excerpts from Tristan und Isolde (Helen Traubel and the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, Artur Rodzinski conducting; Columbia, 10 sides). Rodzinski's men, going full blast, are outshouted by the queen of the Met's Wagnerian hive. Performance: good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Oct. 1, 1945 | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

Last week Mr. Feedham, an official of Canada's Honey Producers Association, announced his find: a honey-producing bee that refuses to sting.* He has already raised five "stingless" queens in his own hives. Besides being rich producers, Squamish bees are prolific, healthy, excellent hive managers. Mr. Feedham was pretty sure that he had something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Reluctant Bee | 7/16/1945 | See Source »

...found in the analogy, namely, that the Emperor is to be destroyed if we want to destroy the present anachronistic Japanese society. The word "disintegration" a la beehive seems to scare Mr. Grew. Obviously all Japanese would not wither and die when the Emperor is disposed of, as the hive does when the queen dies. What would happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 11, 1945 | 6/11/1945 | See Source »

...once Japan is defeated militarily, what then? There are two points of view. One, to which Washington lends an attentive ear, has been best expressed by Under Secretary of State Joseph Clark Grew, who for ten years was U.S. Ambassador to Tokyo. He compares Japanese society to a hive, the Emperor to the queen bee. There comes a time when the queen is thrust out. The hive follows her to its new home. "It was not the queen which made the decision; yet, if one were to remove the queen from the swarm, the hive would disintegrate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The God-Emperor | 5/21/1945 | See Source »

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