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...years old and that her growth pattern is entirely normal (she now stands 4 ft. 11½| in.). The difference of opinion is understandable, for Brenda peers at the world through mascaraed eyes of ageless innocence while crooning her mating songs in a voice that is part whisky, part Negroid, and all woman. The amalgam had, at last counting, put Brenda nearly up with her male counterparts-Fabian and Paul Anka-as one of the teen-age tycoons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Voice of Experience | 1/2/1961 | See Source »

...childlessness. Their prayers are answered. But the Madonna in "heir church, a figure carved from Irish Dog oak, is black as ebony; so, too, is their first-born child. This merciless story makes plain that neither inheritance nor adultery with a Jamaican can explain the couple's embarrassingly Negroid blessing. For all its apparent defiance of realism, this kind of Spark fiction-typical of most tales in this collection-has honest intentions: to make vivid the author's conviction that the face of the world is a mask, and that the real hoax is on those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Confidence Trickster | 11/14/1960 | See Source »

...than its successors, Olmec art is on the whole subtler, gentler, freer and more naturalistic than they are. This naturally bothers archaeologists; it seems to go against reason. So does the presence of two distinct physical types side by side throughout Olmec art: one lean and aquiline, the other Negroid. Meyer's two ambassadors from the lost Olmec world display both types. They are not gods, apparently, but men-alert and still, and perhaps forever strange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: MEN FROM THE DARK | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

...into history, even if "dubious," was certainly pointed at the myth of a Jewish "race." Readers up to examining the matter might look at C. S. Coon's The Races of Europe. Essentially, since peoples practicing Judaism appear in each of the three great stocks of mankind, Caucasoid, Negroid and Mongoloid, there is no Jewish race in the proper biological sense of the word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 16, 1947 | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

Negroes who pass are seldom detected; there are no telltale Negroid features that a generous mixture of Caucasian genes will not erase. Anthropologists and geneticists pooh-pooh the bugaboo of an atavistic black baby. If one of the parents is pure white, the baby cannot be darker than the darker parent; if both have Negro blood, the baby may be slightly darker than its parents but the chances are against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Passers | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

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