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...Rachel Weeping." On the strength of this book, the more remarkable because she has no children, she is almost ready to use her own name. If it does not unravel completely the mysteries of extreme youth that it poses, it at least has the power to make adults shudder at the unwitting wrongs they can do the very young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Know Thy Children | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

...quarantined, and strict measures are taken to keep the pest from spreading. The scientists are none too hopeful. Witchweed seeds are invisible when mixed with soil, and they can be carried by farmers' boots, auto tires, shipments of farm products or almost anything else that moves. Experts shudder to think what would happen if a hurricane were to pick up the seeds and scatter them like smoke. The parasite can probably thrive throughout the South, from Virginia to eastern Texas. It can live on wild grasses, including the common crabgrass, and the 20-year life of its seeds makes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Little Red Flower | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

...record (the house sold 94% of capacity all season long), Bing was in Germany, window-shopping for the latest fashions in opera houses. After clambering about the bobsled-shaped boxes of Cologne's stark new opera theater, plush-and-gilt partisan Bing said with a shudder: "The sacrifice you make here is glamour. I believe New York still wants its opera glamorous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bing's Five-Year Plan | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

...along in front of Wigglesworth, Vag was appalled. Hordes of Summer School females were sprawled on the entry steps in various stages of undress. Vag had always tried to ignore the Summer School as being a mild concession to intellectual faiblesse, but here he could not suppress a slight shudder...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr., | Title: Notes From Underground | 8/8/1957 | See Source »

Summed up Gynecologist William C.W. Nixon: "Of all gynecological operations, that of therapeutic abortion is the one that causes me most discomfort. Not only is there the destruction of the fetus-one can feel the shudder of the [operating room] staff-but also the constant vision of the coroner's court-deaths do occur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Ethics of Abortion | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

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