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...inviting each spectator to close one eye. He holds up a pornographic picture to the other eye, strokes the closed eye with a feather, then invites the spectator to change eyes, holds up a postcard of Queen Elizabeth, and strokes the closed eye with a carrot. "Beautiful, Jean-Jacques," murmur the spectators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Beautiful, Jean-Jacques | 9/23/1966 | See Source »

...laws. He also nailed down a plank denouncing the John Birch Society. "A Republican Party that plays footsie with the Birch Society and the radical right," said Gengras, "cannot win and does not deserve to win." The vociferous minority who supported Barry Goldwater in 1964 went along without a murmur of dissent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Connecticut: In the Ring with Dempsey | 7/1/1966 | See Source »

...customers are on a first-name basis with each other. And the small-town news at the Pump is far fresher and at least as accurate as that published weekly in the Anchor Bay Beacon. When the price of beer recently advanced from 15? to 20?, scarcely a murmur was heard. After all, that's a small price to pay for such amenities. Dear wife, I'll be home late tonight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 17, 1966 | 6/17/1966 | See Source »

...basis, the hostility has often been put aside. Thus, PBH has been able to make long lists of friends. But where Harvard has emerged as an "Institution," the hostility--or at least much of it--remains. Watching a protest march down Massachusetts Ave. this spring most Cambridge spectators could murmur nothing but disgust. They identified the marchers with Harvard, and clearly they didn't like what was coming from the Square. It is also Harvard, the "institution," that can be bandied around in informal political discussions, and therefore it is in this context that anti-Harvard statements can be most...

Author: By Robert J. Samuelson, | Title: University and the City Are Discovering How to Live In Peace--Most of the Time | 6/16/1966 | See Source »

Perhaps literary figures shouldn't write. Perhaps they should just conduct salons, help budding talents bud, and occasionally murmur sage epigrams. Then their writing couldn't tarnish their legend and we could be content to read about them in nostagalgic memoirs and intellectual histories. But unfortunately Gertrude Stein did write a bad undramatic play and all the skill of a fine repertory company isn't enough to save...

Author: By George H. Rosen, | Title: Yes Is for a Very Young Man | 11/18/1965 | See Source »

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