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WALKING HAPPY has bounce, zing, and Wisdom-Norman that is. The musical adaptation of H. G. Brighouse's Hobson's Choice tells of a shoemaker reluctantly pulled up by the bootstraps and the determination of a self-appointed fiancee. While the music ho-hums along, Danny Daniels'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Apr. 7, 1967 | 4/7/1967 | See Source »

HUMS OF THE LOVIN' SPOONFUL (Kama Sutra) includes the latest chart climber, Nashville Cats, which exhibits the Spoonful's sunny, homespun country manner. The group is as versatile and high-spirited as any in folk-rock, and their latest "goodtime music" ranges from the symphonette sounds of Summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jan. 20, 1967 | 1/20/1967 | See Source »

The most nerveless member of the company, of course, is Bing himself. He often pulls a Hitchcock and turns up onstage as a breastplated soldier in Eugen Onegin or leading the soldier's band in Faust. But he is really a frustrated conductor. In the theater, in the subway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: Lord of the Manor | 9/23/1966 | See Source »

As between clicks and whirrs, drips and hums, bangs and roars, the intermittent sounds seem psychologically the worst. A Japanese college student, cramming for an exam, got so maddened by a pile driver that he ended his own noise problem forever by rushing out and putting his head between the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: WHEN NOISE ANNOYS | 8/19/1966 | See Source »

On the surface, Maine-sized Austria hums with gemütlich prosperity. Unemployment shrank last year to a negligible 2%, and wages rose faster (10%) than the cost of living (6%). Last week pre-Easter shoppers crowded Vienna's Kärntnerstrasse, splurging on everything from spring ski sweaters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Austria: Troubled Affluence | 4/8/1966 | See Source »

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