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Undoubtedly lots of students are baffled at the bulk of material labelled "jazz" on the record counters, and buy Debussy to escape confusion. A term must be vague to embrace so many extremes, and talk--especially talk with opinionated jazz-lovers--seldom clarifies the issue. Then those in the jazz...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge Cools Cats Who Thrive On Dixieland, Modern Jazz, Jive; Coffee-Houses May Bring Revival | 9/18/1958 | See Source »

French intellectuals are never happier than when planting the horns of a dilemma on another Frenchman's head. Raymond Aron, brilliant political commentator and Sorbonne professor of philosophy, contends that this intellectual thingumbobbery makes French thinkers and their followers so outrageous and opinionated, so unable to get along with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Myth of Revolution | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

In 1954 the fund commissioned Commonweal Executive Editor John Cogley to write a report on blacklisting in the entertainment industry. Unfortunately, the whole study appeared to be so opinionated, even to objective critics, that it lost much of the impact it might have had with the general public. On the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Philanthropoid No. 1 | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

I trust the new William Buckley school [March 4] will have a sign out in front stating, "Through these portals pass the most opinionated, unthinking, archaically trained students in Connecticut."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 1, 1957 | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

Hero Taylor, at any rate, has a mighty appetite for humble pie. Every time the Englishman (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) gives him the time of day, the American lowers his eyes and smiles shyly, as if filled with gratitude and the sense of his own unworthiness. And when he meets the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 15, 1956 | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

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