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...Lost." If for no other reason, Sullivan seems to have endured simply because he is such a fertile subject for mimicry. Comics who have played the show liken him to "a greeter at Forest Lawn cemetery," crack that "he is one of the few men who can light up a room-just by leaving it." Perhaps the most telling quip about Sullivan's secret of screen longevity came from Fred Allen: "He will last as long as someone else has talent." To Sullivan, there is no mystery. "I am," he says matter-of-factly, "the best damned showman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Variety Shows: Plenty of Nothing | 10/13/1967 | See Source »

...Drug Experience. That slack is often the product of the drug experience. Defenders of the hippie subculture liken it to a super-Eucharistic ritual, one that has brought drug users, particularly of LSD ("the mind detergent") and the other synthetic hallucinogens, into epistemological experience and thus changed their lives forever. Detractors, many of them former hippies themselves, maintain that the religious turn-on is spurious, that true enlightenment can only come through "natural" means, the meditations and mystical experiences common to every religion in history. Still, in its variety and virulence, the hippie pharmacopoeia is the subculture's most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Youth: The Hippies | 7/7/1967 | See Source »

...Beards. The heaviest barrage of all came from Vice President Hubert Humphrey in New Zealand, who took time out from his Asian tour to liken Kennedy's proposal to "a prescription which includes a dose of arsenic," putting "an arsonist in a fire department," and, for good measure, setting "a fox in a chicken coop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Fox in a Chicken Coop | 3/4/1966 | See Source »

Residents of New Jersey sometimes liken their state to a keg of beer tapped at both ends, with New York and Philadelphia drawing off the state's talent, energy and brains. The residue is a flat, zingless brew that satisfies no one. Among the dregs is higher education -a field in which rich New Jersey has the poorest showing of effort among all the 50 states...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Policy: Harvesting Neglect in New Jersey | 1/14/1966 | See Source »

Such as Miss Bernays' prose. One might liken reading it to riding a bicycle over railroad ties: the slower you go, the harder it is to slog on -- the faster you go, the more your brains are scrambled. Her first sentence is perhaps the most complicated grammatical collection of sundry phrases, clauses, and punctuation since Galliawas divisa into partestres. It deserves quoting as an example of a good way to stun a reader and wreck some moderately refreshing images. Says...

Author: By A DOUGLAS Mathews, | Title: A Woman Should Have A Hobby. | 7/6/1965 | See Source »

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