Word: icing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ice Crystals & Arguments...
...Although Schweitzer can certainly be considered a man of character ... his "rev-erence-for-life" theme is decidedly and unfortunately neurotic . . . The tearing of leaves from a tree, the shattering of ice crystals and the cutting of flowers . . . the avoidance of unwittingly damaging weeds at a roadside -all of these are most neurotic . . . The fact that men like Schweitzer and Gandhi have been lauded and idealized for their "ethics" in such matters is a striking indication of what part neurotic trends can play in religion and ethics in our still quite primitive civilization...
...fellow San Franciscan, Ken Towns, 20, student at San Mateo Junior College and part-time handyman about Crystal Springs golf course. The policeman's tee shots, true all week, began to go awry and his putter couldn't have been colder if it had been on ice. Towns closed out the match on the 33rd hole...
Though Olsen & Johnson did poorly on radio in the 1930's, they are confident about their TV future because "all our gags are ocular." The audience-under constant attack from live piglets, cakes of ice, skirt-blowers, chorus girls and clowns -has always been an integral part of their act. The comics have not yet quite solved the problem of framing their wide-ranging madhouse on TV's small screen. By using five television cameras (instead of the two or three used on most TV shows), Olsen & Johnson think they will be able to get the visual intimacy...
...That man is truly ethical," he has written, "who shatters no ice crystal as it sparkles in the sun, tears no leaf from a tree, cuts no flower . . ." As a physician, Schweitzer calls himself "a mass murderer of bacteria," and says he cannot help thinking, when he peers into a microscope, "I have to sacrifice this life in order to preserve other life...