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...last she invents an alter ego named Tony Something and trails off with her on a bus ride to oblivion. Right at the start, Tony Something is swept away by the crowd to the back of the bus; Natalie is left alone among the "enemy," which, to her tortured mind, now includes the whole human race. She tries to escape. They close in, holding her motionless. The man on her left nods and winks to the others. A woman's coat brushes mockingly against Natalie's face. Natalie thinks that all of them are in a plot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Psychological Chiller | 4/23/1951 | See Source »

...just a question of time until the class committees followed their functions into oblivion. The council wisely and economically cut the time short...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Requiem | 11/1/1950 | See Source »

...pioneers, trail-breakers, etc., we are not seeking statues or even plaques for ourselves But we would like to avoid oblivion for another year or so. Moreover, the Plan is a good one, well worth continuing in times when lawyers are in increasing number convinced that the narrow view of the law will not suffice if the rule of law is to survive; and it did not take ten years to produce a graduate. Charles O Porter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: . . . and its Pioneers | 10/31/1950 | See Source »

World Citizen Garry Davis, 28, who tore up his U.S. passport in 1948, seemed to have postponed his search for "oblivion." Back in his native land on a French immigrant's visa, Garry married brunette Audrey Peters, 21, an ex-Hollywood dancer whom he had courted by mail. They met for the first time after he landed from the America three weeks ago. First, Garry and Audrey said their vows in the city hall plaza at Ellsworth, Me., while 500 townspeople joined in chanting a "unification of love" service which Garry had written, printed and passed around. Asked about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Personal Approach | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

...cover, but in the case of Wait for Tomorrow the publishers have made it almost easy. In the right foreground, out of a Dali-type desert, rises a stack of 85 gold coins. A kingly crown lies in the sand nearby, and a derelict liquor bottle dribbles into oblivion. In the distance a ridge of bloody mounds bars the way to a paradisiacal grove of cloud-pink skyscrapers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: There Is No Importance | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

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