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...city-room bulletin board went a warning to staffers that "disciplinary action" would be taken against any reporter who accepts even a part-time job from a candidate. Tierney also sent out letters to every office-seeker in Hudson County, pointing out that it would be "manifestly unfair" to allow reporters to work for some candidates but not others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Speechless in Jersey | 3/25/1957 | See Source »

...basic assumption that "Being is in the present" is admitted, much of Krishnamurti's advice becomes valid. But is that assumption sound? For the seeker of the self especially, Being may be realized only in terms of Becoming, not in the present. The present, I think, is merely the synopsis of the past and future, the elusive transition from the "has been" to the "not yet." The essence of the self is its very ability to project itself, to plan, to become. Being always includes Becoming, and the search for reality must embrace the future and find its way through...

Author: By Robert H. Neuman, | Title: The Bookshelf | 3/20/1957 | See Source »

There is much in this play to delight the seeker after hidden meanings, for Aiken ignores neither symbols nor that interrelation of characters and events which suggests more than appears on the surface. The surgeon who bends over Arcularis as he lies on the operation table reappears as another passenger on the dream voyage. And this passenger is the owner of the chisel which Arcularis likens to a scalpel, and with which he tries in his sleep to break open the coffin in the ship's refrigeration room, the coffin which he comes to realize contains his own corpse. Other...

Author: By John A. Pope, | Title: Conrad Aiken Revivifies "Mr. Arcularis" | 3/1/1957 | See Source »

...stumble) into two broad categories, desirable and undesirable. The former are merely those of the latter who have become bearable either by their absence or by their roommate's. The species is varied, but general characteristics run through it. These similarities and variations must be classified if the roommate-seeker is to make an intelligent choice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strange Bedfellows | 2/15/1957 | See Source »

...artist had wished to avoid in truding on their lives. Hopper's own unalterable reserve makes him as surprising, in an age of clattering egos, as a tree growing in the middle of Main Street. He is profoundly "inner-directed," or, as he puts it, "a self-seeker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Silent Witness | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

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