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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Phrases"), Milady, Your Figure!, Relaxation by Suggestive Therapy, and a discussion of the Kinsey Report. Folkways recorded a part of the Bhagavad Gita in Sanskrit; Audio Book Co. recorded all 27 books of the New Testament on 26 seven-inch disks, which can be played in a mere 23 hours 30 minutes (price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Spoken Word | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

...United States' budget system, recognized as inefficient since the time of Alexander Hamilton, has become a mere patchwork of uncoordinated committees. Blind budget hacking is no longer adequate for an intricate economic situation. The congressional budgetary system needs integration, therefore, for appropriations and revenues are handled by separate committees, making a budget tailored to American resources almost impossible. Not only are finances and expenditures not matched coherently, but few of the members of the involved committees are aware of any sort of legislative budgetary policy. Slashes are made in budgets with little regard to the importance of items...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Reasoned Budget | 4/29/1955 | See Source »

...spring at that, almost anything could happen. Unfortunately, the wrong thing does Guinness is tripped up by a script which keeps him in the background and gives him too little to do. Not that the English comedian's flight to France and sophisticated comedy is entirely dull. The mere presence of the old master on the screen would be enough to keep any film from sinking into the grey depths of tedium. The main trouble with this one is that the audience gets an uncomfortable feeling that just out of camera range is a writer who worries more about working...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: To Paris, With Love | 4/27/1955 | See Source »

...supermen. the problem of directing brains from the mechanisms of Ac-DC current, the path of least resistance, to thoughts of the spirit, the divine essence and meaning of seemingly scientifically-equationed existences as undergraduates of THE Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is here resolved. and what's more--by mere architecture. Students need not even enter the "pearly gates" for inspiration; simply by gazing upon this matchless expression of modernity such divine phrases as "Oh my God!" and "Well I'll be damned!" will rise to their inspirited lips...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROBOT CHAPEL | 4/26/1955 | See Source »

...Idea of Man." The U.S. finds itself frustrated in fighting this idea to the extent that the U.S. itself shares it. If often since the war the U.S. has stood more or less speechless before mankind, unable "to breathe life into what we ourselves believe," the failure is not merely one of propaganda, political warfare or communication-it lies in America's own philosophical tradition, in its unlimited faith in material progress and its excessive optimism about human nature. Faith, not so much in pure science, but in social doctrines that falsely lay claim to being scientific-Davenport aptly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The American Dilemma | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

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