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...Cave." Bluff Ohioan Bab bitt seemed a mart out of his time. Causes were bursting all about him, and the only kind of conscience that seemed fashion able was the social kind. Rolling a pencil between his hands, Babbitt spoke of the "inner obeisance" that man must have "to something higher than his ordinary self." He despised the new ethics that was based entirely on the assumption that the only "significant struggle between good and evil is not in the individual but in society." In one sense, Irving Babbitt almost blasted Nathan Pusey's academic career. His broad humanism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Unconquered Frontier | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

...Idea. In Dearborn, Mich., Mayor Orville Hubbard ordered his department heads to lock themselves in their offices for half an hour each morning, take a pencil and paper and "jot down any hot ideas . . . That is the way Newton discovered the law of gravity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 22, 1954 | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

Abrupt and unsmiling, Dulles rammed a pencil point into his scratch pad. "But who is this Chou En-lai whose addition to our circle would make possible all that so long seemed impossible [see box]? He is a leader of a regime which gained de facto power on the China mainland through bloody war . . . which became an open aggressor in Korea . . . which promotes aggression in Indo-China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Big Duel | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

...sheet has two different colorless coatings, one on each side. Where the typewriter face or pencil point presses the two coatings together, a chemical reaction turns the lower sheet's top coating blue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Feb. 1, 1954 | 2/1/1954 | See Source »

...first time is inevitably surprised at what he sees. Partly this is true because newspaper readers and TV viewers think of Ike in black & white photographs, where his bland coloring makes for a washed-out picture. (Before he makes his TV broadcasts, the makeup men have to pencil in hairline and eyebrows.) But in full color Ike Eisenhower emerges as a warm study of a man of 63 years, ruddy of complexion from the jaw to the top of his broad, bald head, with the ruddiness contrasted by blue eyes, blond-whitish eyebrows and thin wisps of greying blond hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: EISENHOWER: MAN IN MOTION | 1/18/1954 | See Source »

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