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...Formosa Strait . . . Like Gulliver in Lilliput, the great strength of the United States has been pinned down by men too small for it to notice . . . We must have a formula to prevent surrender or appeasement, and that formula must be so clear . . . that no hidden appeasers can pervert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Winds on the Hill | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

...oldest and noisiest foes of Senator Joe McCarthy is Herman M. Greenspun, 45, publisher of the Las Vegas Sun (circ. 12,437). In the columns of the Sun, "Hank" Greenspun has repeatedly called McCarthy "a secret Communist" and a "disreputable pervert." Reluctant to sue, and thus give currency to Green-spun's charges, but goaded to do something, McCarthy's office last year asked the Post Office Department whether the Sun should lose its second-class mailing privileges (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Greenspun Wins | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

...people and they in turn must destroy you. The chances are that McCarthy will be laid to rest at the hands of some poor innocent slob whose reputation and life he has destroyed through his well-established smear technique . . ." Nevertheless, Greenspun added that it was time for "the disreputable pervert [to answer] for his crimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Indicted? Delighted! | 4/19/1954 | See Source »

Psychiatrists hold that bullying and cries of "Pervert!" are an incitement to the deviate to prove himself, possibly in crimes of violence. And, they add, those who protest most loudly against deviations in others are the least sure of their own sexual adjustment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Hidden Problem | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

Many student practitioners of twelve-tone music pervert it to either intellectual hogwash or emotional hash. But Paul Knudson, in his Lyric Suite, produced a series of diversified, well-calculated effects ranging from desolation to jaunty self-confidence. And a little ditty by Christian Wolff, For Piano II, was notable for its extremely disjointed phrases, its bare, unornamented texture, and its utilization of the piano's percussive sonorities. On Monday night, Joel Mandelbaum's Piano Concerto in A received its premiere performance. Mandelbaum conducted the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, and Ann Besser, to whom the work was dedicated, was soloist...

Author: By Lawrence R. Casler, | Title: Festival of Harvard Composers and Harvard-Radcliffe Orch. | 4/30/1953 | See Source »

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