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...trick has been for a man to learn how much is too much. Now a Canadian physician, Robert Gordon Bell, who has treated thousands of alcoholics, offers a formula which he believes any intelligent person can use as a rough guide to keep his drinking within safe & sane limits. Most people, he holds, will be less likely to drink too much if they are made to think about the problem and can learn where the danger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: How High Am I? | 3/9/1953 | See Source »

...create the impression that there are still many active in universities, an impression commanding no supporting evidence. We believe the Committee must have realized their work would be reported in this manner; that they went ahead is an indication that headlines are more important to them than a sane climate in American universities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reveille for Liberals | 3/6/1953 | See Source »

...Novelist Aswell's heroine, Rowdy, is rich, sweet, 17, and belongs to the want-to-be-lost generation. She is engaged to a handsome home-town boy (Rivermark, La.) who sells insurance and is as safe and sane as the Fourth of July without firecrackers. When he introduces her to a poetry-quoting New Orleans gambler, Randy Blane, Rowdy feels the "dark downbeat witchery" of the man melting her engagement ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Soup Opera | 2/16/1953 | See Source »

That the state's obscenity statutes are reasonably sane, judges, writers and the morally-minded will now agree. But each month, millions of copies of comic books, magazines, and pocket reprints and originals come into Boston and Cambridge. To check and try each one on charges of "obscenity" (if it were deemed so) would be absurd; even to read them all would be impossible. Yet all are available to six, as well as 80 year olds...

Author: By David W. Cudhea and Ronald P. Kriss, S | Title: 'Banned in Boston'--Everything Quiet? | 12/5/1952 | See Source »

...will undoubtedly receive a flood of protests from horrified, or should I say enraged art lovers, following the much-too-generous presentation, in your Oct. 27 issue, of some of the smudgy and meaningless paintings submitted recently to the Pittsburgh Carnegie International art show . . . What on earth sane-minded people can see in these blotches of color is beyond me. Picasso was bad enough, but this is really the limit! Pittsburgh has long been noted for its smoky atmosphere, and I would not be a bit surprised if the soot coming out of its innumerable chimneys has finally obscured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 17, 1952 | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

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