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TIME is neat, compact and well-written. But I think it dishonest of TIME to overplay modern art, and show such senile distortionalists and juvenile paint slingers. I do not question the right of any individual to be an expressionist, distortionalist or eggbeater-ist-to trickle, sling or spray paint. If these people find happiness, well and good. There may be a revolution in the art world, but there are others who rebel against being cultured, and wish to remain uncouth and unartistic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 5, 1956 | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

...neatly toasted. The setting is India; the set is buna sahib; the time is mainly the '30s; the season is boredom. But at least two men and one woman think there is more to India than what can be seen through the bottom of a gin-sling glass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Exotic Marshmallow | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

...never heard of Emmett Till until a body was found in the river, just because you didn't like the verdict of the jury . . . Any Negro or white from anywhere in the world knows it is wrong to roll his eyes, whistle lewdly, make obscene remarks, and sling an innocent lady around as if she were a barmaid. Is it justice to make a hero of an immoral Negro? TIME could at least have the decency to disapprove of his actions and sympathize with his victim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 24, 1955 | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

Died. Stuart David Engstrand, 50, best-selling novelist who probed dark psychological themes (The Sling and the Arrow, the story of a marriage ruined by the husband's homosexuality; Beyond the Forest, a tale of a vengeful wife); by drowning, when he walked fully clothed into a lake in Los Angeles' MacArthur Park...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 19, 1955 | 9/19/1955 | See Source »

...second pass Koelsch spotted Wilkins. "He dropped the sling and I got into it. The North Koreans had every damn gun they had firing. Frankly, it was so bad I would rather have taken my chances at staying on the ground . . ." When Wilkins was dangling about three feet off the ground, another blast of Communist fire struck the hovering whirlybird and it crashed to the ground. "The chopper's door opened, and I saw Jack Koelsch and George Neal hanging upside down in their belts. 'Are you O.K.?' I yelled at them. 'Never mind that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Chopper Pilot | 8/15/1955 | See Source »

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