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These Are the Men (Sun. 7:30 p.m., ABC). Representative Joe Martin and leading Republicans, with Moderator Quincey Howe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Aug. 20, 1956 | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

...academic that only about one in every four children gets into them. Those who do must face the dreaded baccalauréat (bachot) exam to graduate. Many must memorize stacks of Greek and Latin verbs, know how to translate Seneca and Tacitus, analyze (in English) the works of De Quincey, Ruskin and George Eliot, be familiar with everything from the Pensées of Pascal to the characters of Corneille...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Allons, Enfants . . . | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

Literature abounds with testimonials by narcotics addicts-De Quincey, Coleridge, Baudelaire, Cocteau-to the beauties of the neverland to which their favorite dope has transported them. Most medical textbooks have copied each other's statements that the effect of narcotics is uniformly pleasant. But most people who try a couple of shots out of curiosity find the effects (including nausea and vomiting) so unpleasant that they stop right there. Only a few persist and become slaves to the drugs. Why the difference? Three researchers at Harvard Medical School suspected that to become an addict, an individual needs not only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Matters of Mood | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

...recently, I at last got hold of Professor de Selincourt's fine edition of her Journals. They led me to his life of Dorothy Wordsworth, to Margoliouth's Wordsworth and Coleridge, back with a new eye to Hazlitt's My First Acquaintance with Poets, to De Quincey . . . The advantage of reading of this kind is that it takes you through life continually opening up new vistas of old country, slowly filling in a pattern of memories and emotions and associations such as no strictly formalized reading can give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pleasure on Parnassus | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

...Bold Dick Turpin was one, but only one, of a numerous night-errantry that pranced the moonlight lanes about London, hearts high and pistols level, to cry the hapless traffic to Stand and deliver what it had in pocket. "The finest men in England, physically speaking," said Thomas De Quincey, "the very noblest specimens of man, considered as an animal, were the mounted robbers who cultivated their profession of the great roads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gentlemen of the Road | 8/20/1951 | See Source »

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