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Some of the pictures (with titles like The Red Sun Is Gnawing at the Spider) looked like the absent-minded doodles of a preoccupied businessman. They were crammed with little stars, half moons, circles, eyes, teeth and amorphic blobs loosely knit together with wandering black lines. There were also sculptures and such: highly polished pear-sized bronzes and "objects" made of bricks, rusty wire and old bones. All these things were produced by Joán Miró, a Spanish-born painter-sculptor who has long been a fashionable exponent of all that is doodliest in modern art (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Boiling Internally | 7/10/1950 | See Source »

...that "if the [television] craze continues with the present level of programs, we are destined to have a nation of morons." But from a suburb of TV-happy Baltimore came cheerier news. A survey made by School Principal Joseph Barlow of Essex, Md. seemed to show that TV has knit families more closely; reduced street accidents to children; improved adolescent behavior; sped up housework by wives eager to get to their sets; and cut down on moviegoing, radio listening and "idle conversation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Morons & Happy Families | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

...talk of "balanced collective forces" as still only blueprints of the future. It would take up to ten years to convert these promising blueprints into armed power. The hopeful Pentagon estimate of June 1950 was also based on U.S. armed strength abuilding: new antitank and antiaircraft weapons, a better-knit tactical air force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Conversion at the Pentagon | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

With its first production, the Harvard Theatre Group has entered the College scene as a close-knit, highly competent dramatic organization. The group is currently offering "Figaro!" in the House dining halls and common rooms, and is proving that Beaumarchais' 18th century farce can still provide an evening of laughter and enjoyment...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 5/3/1950 | See Source »

...face by a ball during Monday's practice, Broder suffered a double fracture of the cheekbone and a broken nose. Doctors at Baker Memorial Hospital, where Broder was rushed after the accident, estimated that it would take at least six weeks for the bones to knit properly. The freshman season ends with the Yale game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Broder Will Be Lost to '53 Ten For Rest of Year | 4/22/1950 | See Source »

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