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...uncommitted react to the situation much like June brides, combining a certain amount of confusion with a heady sense of power...
...week's end authorities at hundreds of U.S. colleges had begun to react almost like early settlers anticipating an Indian attack. The director of women's residence halls at Indiana University hopefully set out a barrelful of female undergarments in the hope that males would help themselves and go home quietly. Psychiatrists had a field day attempting to explain the phenomenon. But Zoologist Alfred (Sexual Behavior in the Human Male) Kinsey remained calm: "All animals," said he, "play around...
...should a modern artist react to the atomic age? In Venice last week, 13 Italian painters who call themselves "spatialists" and "nuclearists" gave their answer with an exhibit "inspired by the atomic bomb." The canvases were almost as explosive as the bomb itself: furious fireballs of bright colors and bold contrasts. Prizewinning explosion: a churning blue and green fantasy by a 27-year-old artist named Gianni Dova. At the top of his painting was a dripping black splash with a fiery red spot. The impression he hopes to give, says Dova, is that the splash is alive, and will...
...this, the ox only produces one calf a year and seldom more than three in a lifetime, and will not be a common sight in Vermont for some time. This is probably just as well. The musk ox, which likes to lick lichen from snow-covered rocks, should react well to New England grazing. But it is a little harder to tell just how New England will react to the musk...
...First Lady. Amidst all these endeavors, she has also become an international figure of tremendous influence and prestige, both as the widow of Franklin Roosevelt and, increasingly, as a delegate to the U.N. To millions in the Western world, who react with uneasiness and doubt to the U.S. atom bomb and U.S. emphasis on material success, she is a symbol of hope, sanity and human dignity. Her earnest idealism, which many of her own countrymen sometimes find a little absurd, is eminently reassuring to great masses of people who are exposed to Communist cries of American warmongering...