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...jacket design of the album is calculated to appeal to the believer in ghosts and seances and such. The front shows a sort of slimy, ectoplasmic quill pen writing music, and the back has a "quote" from Sir Donald Tovey about composers who "have shuffled off these mortal coils." This remarkably florid pseudo-Shakesperianism was allegedly transmitted last January by Sir Donald from beyond the grave. Tovey was never a great stylist, but even he never sank that...
...Economists, made some projections for TIME. By analyzing 320 eco nomic equations in a computer, Data Resources projected what the econ omy would have looked like in this year's fourth quarter had there been no strike, and compared these results with what is likely to hap pen if the work stoppage lasts six weeks or twelve weeks. The figures list ed below are in billions of dollars at an annual rate, except where otherwise stated...
...very tempting to give one stroke of the pen for each of the millions of people that America has killed or starved or maimed, or the thousands of rivers that it has polluted, and reduce it all to a table or graph and then say, "Look...
...Just as the subconscious mind affects handwriting," he says, "handwriting can be used to affect the subconscious mind. It can reinforce our neuroses or eliminate them." On that premise he has built a successful, albeit somewhat lonely career in graphotherapy-the diagnosis and treatment of emotional problems through the pen...
...detention farm in California, Psychologist Ernest Bradford Smith has been analyzing the script of his charges for 15 years and says that he can now spot the delinquent by his handwriting. De Sainte Colombe is widely known among West Coast behavioral scientists, some of whom are impressed by his pen-and-pencil therapy. Tested at a number of institutions, among them California's Patton State Hospital and the Santa Clara Mental Health Center, his treatment has produced what Psychologist George Melzer calls "astonishing results." Says Dr. John Langdell, a psychiatrist at San Francisco's Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute...