Word: persons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your Aug. 5 discussion of inflation you neglected to mention one of the causes: namely, pensions. It is very obvious that when a person is promised that he will receive an adequate income in later life he will proceed to spend more of his present income than he would in other circumstances. He has no further need to save and so he spends...
Perfume of Sanctity. Least flattering of all is the portrait Cozzens draws of Marjorie Penrose's proselytizing Roman Catholic friend, Mrs. Pratt. Mrs. Pratt has a sweet tooth for vicarious sins, and she loves the gooey drippings of intimate confidences from flesh-bedeviled souls like Marjorie. About her person she dabs the odor of sanctity as if it were the latest Parisian perfume. But as she prattles of sin and piety in the quiet of Arthur Winner's garden, her innuendoes loose the first of the novel's rockslides of revelation. On the very...
Studying the Catholics. Hungary's lean, taut Bishop Lajos Ordass (TIME, Aug. 19) opened the assembly with a speech in which he modestly spoke of himself in the third person: "He would like to say that when he was in bondage in the most literal sense of the word, Christ gave him royal freedom." In another exposed position on the firing line of faith is another delegate: spade-bearded Bishop Otto Dibelius, 77, head of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg, whose 5,000,000-member flock is mostly on the Red side of Germany, and who is currently...
...trying to hide anything," says Architect Williams. "We don't have an exposed beam suddenly stopped by plaster. The eye can follow the line right to its logical conclusion. There's so much chaos and confusion in the outside world today that a person has a right to peace in his own home." Adds Partner Smith: "But we don't call these houses Japanese. They do have elements of Japanese architecture in them, but that's just because we've found those elements to be the best answer to our problems...
Banker Land figures that the population boom will not boost general prosperity unless there is an "accompanying increase in real income and real productive capacity per person." And there is less chance for this now because "children and old people account for most of the expansion in our population. Consequently, the working force must run faster in order to stand still...