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Word: note (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your story seemed to reach the precise central issue in the controversy over the war. You report Rusk's quoting Harry Truman as saying that we must "support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation . . ." Agreed-but note that very important word "free." All the arguments of the Lyndon Johnsons, McGeorge Bundys and Dean Rusks have totally failed to convince thoughtful Americans that the South Vietnamese are, or ever were, a "freer" people than the North Vietnamese. Until they are so convinced, many Americans must continue to regard their country's present military activity as 1) immoral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 11, 1966 | 2/11/1966 | See Source »

...Missouri's Upward Reach" [Feb. 4], you note that Missouri University has elevated a St. Louis junior college to a co-equal university campus. What must be added is that Normandy's alert board of education recognized an opportunity when the Bellerive Country Club offered its soon-to-be-vacated property at a moderate price to the school district. An appreciative group of parents sprang into action to pass a bond issue and necessary tax to purchase the property, and an enterprising group of local public school administrators converted an opportunity into reality by establishing a two-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 11, 1966 | 2/11/1966 | See Source »

...tried to jump out of a plane in flight; on another occasion he tried to walk into a whirling propeller. One morning, Mary Hemingway, Papa's fourth wife, found her husband with a shotgun in one hand, two shells in the other. He had just finished writing a note in which he made ominous references to his will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Literary Property: A Pique at Biography | 2/11/1966 | See Source »

...favored great chordal eruptions of thick, textured sound. In his imaginative Symphonic for Piano, for example, a splintered melodic line is surrounded by raging harmonies almost demonic in their intensity. The final two movements are the volcanic outpourings of a man possessed. Schumann, viewing one of Alkan's note-heavy scores, declared it "black on black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Composers: Curiosity Piece | 2/4/1966 | See Source »

...different types of bourbon (straight, charcoal-filtered, sour-mash) after the second drink. After the third, he says, they cannot tell bourbon from Canadian rye, and after the fourth they cannot distinguish bourbon from Scotch. After the fifth, presumably, they couldn't care less. Bishop also adds a note on something that many a hard-pressed host has already discovered: that switching gin and vodka martinis in the shank of any evening is as easy as it is unsporting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Through a Shot Glass Darkly | 1/28/1966 | See Source »

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