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...swallowed the potion, lay down on a couch and waited. Within an hour Hofmann began tg report: "I am losing my normal bodily sensations . . . My perception of space and time is changing . . . Your faces appear strange . . ." Finally: "Now, as I close my eyes, I see a wonderful but indistinct kaleidoscopic train of visions. They are vividly colored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mushroom Madness | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

Sprouting out of the New York Times one morning last week was a full-page advertisement that showed a mushroom cloud, huge, horrific, indistinct. WE MUST POSTPONE OUR COMING TESTS, proclaimed the ad's sponsor, an organization called the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy-ACT NOW FOR MAN'S SAKE. The way to do that, said the committee, was to 1) write President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon; 2) write Congressmen, editors and commentators; 3) "organize a group" or work with existing groups "in your community." The point to make: the U.S.'s summer series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOM: How Sane the SANE? | 4/21/1958 | See Source »

...Hangchow. His Mist in Wooded Mountains shows that he could combine these earlier influences into a work that became uniquely his own. The drama is in the landscape itself, in the mountains and solid trees seen emerging through the fog. But 500 years later it was the small, indistinct figures that caught the eye of Ch'ing (Manchu) Emperor Ch'ien-lung, caused him to write his appreciation at the top of the scroll: "Mountain and villages, dimly seen through rain and clouds; the fisherman on his way home feels the weight [of rain] on his clothes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: MASTERPIECES OF CHINESE ART | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

...large part because almost none of the cast have any sense of military bearing or authority. They look and act more like hoods in an all-night card game than naval officers struggling with a very difficult question of right and wrong. The characterizations are without exception sloppy and indistinct. In addition, Marker's blocking and use of Sanders Theatre stage are most unhappy. The bulk of the movement in the performance consists of ridiculous and histrionic stridings from one side of the huge, empty stage to the other. And any merits or subtleties that the performance might have were...

Author: By Gerald E. Bunker, | Title: The Caine Mutiny Court Martial | 5/3/1957 | See Source »

...reasons given in yesterday's editorial for a bill to compel testimony before Congressional committees was this: as long as witnesses kept the real extent of Communist infiltration indistinct through use of the Fifth Amendment, such infiltration could be magnified by cheap politicians. The latest McCarthy-Furry affair is a timely example. McCarthy stated, that, in closed hearings, Furry refused to testify about radar espionage and indoctrination of students. With this as a springboard, he could call the University "a smelly mess," where members of the Communist Party are currently on the faculty, feeding students "Communist philosophy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McCarthy: Put Up or Shut Up | 11/7/1953 | See Source »

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