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...indignation. We have been listening too much to the raving hyenas, scavengers, jackals, parrots and vultures who should be kept behind moats in the Bronx Zoo. It is too bad that the rest of America does not realize how few and unrepresentative these discordant voices are. The shallows murmur, but the deeps are dumb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers: The Word from Moses | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

...Brother Bobby and his sister, Jean Kennedy Smith, arrived after a 100-mile dash from Boston in a state police car. By then, Teddy was able to summon up a wan smile and murmur: "How are you, Bobby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Massachusetts: Teddy's Ordeal | 6/26/1964 | See Source »

...dancing a jig, and crossing his eyes till he practically looks out of his ears. People who did not see him on Broadway will probably think he is just a somewhat shorter, somewhat quieter Jerry Lewis. People who did will wonder what makes him tic, and wistfully murmur: " Autre temps, autre Morse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Morse Makes the Scene | 5/22/1964 | See Source »

...required a storm of inventiveness, and Gerhard, 67, proved himself to be a resourceful composer. Violin bows drawn across cymbals' edges make their pale, tortured protest as they create an eerie, shimmering climate of fear. A nail file raked across piano strings evokes wind against telegraph wires. The murmur and patter of the rats in the streets is sounded by cellists tapping clamped strings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oratorios: The Meaning of the Rats | 4/10/1964 | See Source »

Lynda Bird's engagement to Roman Catholic Bernard Rosenbach is causing an ecclesiastical murmur. The White House refuses to say whether or not she is taking Catholic instruction. The zealous Protestants and Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State sees the coming marriage as a chance for the Catholic Church to prove the sincerity of its new ecumenical intentions by "permitting Miss Johnson to choose her own clergyman and waiving the traditional Catholic commitment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Worship: Johnson's Faith | 4/3/1964 | See Source »

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