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Joan Baez is professionally lost, unilaterally unhappy to the point that her life might be a void were she ever-perish the thought! -to find happiness. She is a believer without a faith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 30, 1962 | 11/30/1962 | See Source »

Carbon & Kitty Hawk. He was born in 1861 and, of course, was given the best sort of education. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at 16, switched to Harvard, graduated magna cum laude in 1882 (the year Franklin Delano Roosevelt, perish the name, was born), went on to Zurich for further studies. Later, he journeyed into Pennsylvania looking for likely investments in oil and gas. Cabot concluded that there was money to be made in byproducts from the refining process. As usual, his judgment turned out to be correct. In 1887 he began manufacturing carbon black as a coloring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Massachusetts: Zest for Life | 11/9/1962 | See Source »

...finally remind these merchants that our actions are not a destruction of light, but a vindication of right. God willing, Christmas as we know it will not perish from this Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Christmas Crisis | 11/5/1962 | See Source »

...death! Shake the bells, set up altars, light candles, spray holy water, gnash your teeth, cry with bloody tears, chew ashes, devour each other, kiss each other, go to the left, go to the right, go up, go down, burn incense. The old world is going to perish. Hiue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playwrights: Smoke, Froth, Snort! | 10/5/1962 | See Source »

...dripper. The people Brook resents are those faddists who promote abstract art and will enthuse about nothing else. He also has an oldster's dismissing attitude toward those younger artists who, he says, display their contempt for discipline and craftsmanship by deliberately using materials that are doomed to perish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: That First Quick Look | 8/3/1962 | See Source »

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