Word: noted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...note that Fund President Hutchins has confused liberty with license, is the "ponderous pixie" who uses endowment for current whims. Why not endow the study of the love life of lefthanded caterpillars? That would do no harm and would give employment to plenty of pixies...
...Arab bias of TIME more than the brief letter by Nasser [Nov. 28], in which he expresses his "admiration for the article dealing with the Egyptian revolution." In the same issue you publish an anti-American-Jewish piece by William Zukerman [JUDGMENTS & PROPHECIES]. Let TIME and Zukerman note that I and a vast number of American Jews are not Zionists, or particularly favorable toward Zionism, but we feel bitterly that Israel is getting a raw deal. Jew or no Jew, in the great American tradition, I am for the underdog...
Like a medicine show's drumbeat, Khrushchev's insistent appeal hit the Indians' ears. "Judge for yourselves who is your friend and who are your enemies." For the visitors, it was a good note to end on. Packing up the accumulated crockery of three weeks of giftgiving, and leaving behind an accumulation of promises, Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolai Bulganin prepared to move on. There was still more work to be done in Afghanistan...
...Medical Horizons tried to get a hopeful note into its discussion of headaches, but the main conclusion drawn from its visit to the Duke University School of Medicine was that science, when it comes to migraine, is better armed with pain-killers than with cures. NBC's Medic is ordinarily more interested in shock values than in therapy, and last week showed a hysterical mother accusing her spinster sister of the willful murder of a three-month-old infant. After an endless autopsy, the coroner was able to prove that death had been caused by a bronchial infection. Unresolved...
...opening work, Mozart's Quartet in C-major, K.465 (1785), with its famous pessimistic introduction, contains some daring harmony which several of the composer's contemporaries felt obliged to "correct." But just as important is the extraordinarily limpid texture and intense purity that extend from first note to last...