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Alouette. If the snow was scarce, the beer was plentiful on New Year's Eve. At The Red Onion in the center of town, students, bums and beats sang along with dentists from Minneapolis, executives from Chicago and big spenders from Dallas and Houston. And, of course, Kennedys. Around a table near the center of the room sat Attorney General Bobby, Senator Teddy, plus their wives, and Sister Jean Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: The Ski People | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

...departments of art, classics, music or philosophy. English, history and psychology are undistinguished. To scoffers at the major-league University of Texas, Aggies are strictly "onion packers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Texas Athletic & Military | 9/28/1962 | See Source »

Baschet's instruments are not electronically amplified, but they produce a moaning tumult of sound that is roughly Lasry-Baschet's idea of what modern music should be. "Conceptions aren't linear any more," says Composer Lasry. "Not like an onion, where you can peel off one orderly layer after the other. Our search is nothing but an attempt to get through music what we hear in life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Ways to Make Noise | 8/10/1962 | See Source »

...meander of elements to a four-square jig of fire-water called "tab 's' to be inserted in slot 't'"--in short, a fence "apeiron" with seeds tied hatching to its string, knitting the cold wet hamburg of the world to clay and fleshing it with glaze, an onion ring sliced for a sky that curdled, by fire hurled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poetry Winners | 8/9/1962 | See Source »

...left in relative peace to do their jobs in the painstaking traditional way. As a result, while most East German goods are hopelessly shoddy, Meissen china has retained its traditional quality, commands a steep price wherever it is sold, e.g., a twelve-place dinner setting of the bestselling "Blue Onion" design costs $500 in New York. Next to optical products and cameras, Meissen is East Germany's best hard-currency earner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Satellites: Communist Meissen Ware | 7/13/1962 | See Source »

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