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...element in a controversy composed of those elements whose social interest lies not so much in their immediate appeal, or their poignant arousal of those central emotions or basic human dignities that are evident in reading a newspaper but rather in duller things, that prompts us to submit the kernel of comment which was brought to mind by a view in print of the exhibition of certain young ladies aggressively antagonizing and hostile to their opponents in the affair who are icky...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weighty Words | 1/20/1967 | See Source »

...Peking indicated that Mao and Lin may have several additional errands for the Guards to do. But the Party has already ordered some Red Guards to help harvest the crops, and with an anticipated drop in grain production the Party may send many more out to harvest every last kernel...

Author: By T. JAY Mathews, | Title: Mao's Last Purge | 10/22/1966 | See Source »

...dead man did not commit suicide, but was murdered-and, for good measure, to go out and collar the murderer. Along the way, the rabbi unobtrusively offers a short course in Conservative Judaism, as well as some choice and not entirely flattering opinions about his fellow Jews. For example, Kernel-man explains why cantors like to call themselves by their diminutives: they are childishly vain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Talmudic Sleuth | 9/30/1966 | See Source »

...doom boom has worn pretty thin. But not too thin for Welshman Peter George, 41, who co-authored the Strangelove script and wrote the novel, Red Alert, on which it was based. In Commander-1, he uses the familiar formula-headline-fresh immediacy wrapped around a minute kernel of plausibility. Red China, newly armed with a few primitive but potent nuclear bombs, decides to eliminate both Russia and the U.S. by convincing each that the other has launched an all-out war. The Chinese smuggle bombs into New York, Moscow and other points, where they are detonated by radio signals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Strangelove on the Beach | 7/2/1965 | See Source »

...miles of rubbery string. I've been reeling words out of my gut for years, I suppose to find out one day what there is at the middle of me." The friend thoughtfully replies that at the middle, as far as he can see, there is "a little kernel of warm, stale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Parson of No Importance | 2/5/1965 | See Source »

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