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...pioneers, operating on a frontier that is never conquered. But as Nathan Pusey has already found out, pioneers are rarely popular. They are threatened from without by those who do not understand them; they are also hampered from within by those who are blind to all but a sliver of the path ahead. For the liberal tradition, therefore, Nathan Pusey has offered not only a defense but a definition. "We are," says he, "against fundamentalism of all kinds . . . and all kinds of mean-minded thinking that would make man less than he is." But to this he adds: "Most particularly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Unconquered Frontier | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

Playwright Krasna's pennyworth of wit and plot is about as much help to the proceedings as a sliver of ice to a long summer drink. And Kind Sir seems hardly more wicked than it is witty. Moreover, the production-instead of obeying the rule for froth, and moving as fast and lightly as possible-is all in regal slow-motion, like a Coronation rehearsal. Actress Martin cannot fail to be personally engaging, but her portentous pauses and rather statuesque poses are a mistake. Boyer's role allows an excellent actor no chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Nov. 16, 1953 | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

...read a book some time. I saw a quiz show and the contestant lost the jackpot because he hadn't read a book." "Who wants to read, Miss Hall? It makes you feel petunia."* ¶Amid a cloud of complaints about inflation, the University of Wisconsin found a sliver of a silver lining: diplomas, which cost 55? in 1949, 43?in 1950 and 36? in 1952, have hit a new low-32?. ¶Appointments of the week: Psychologist Nils Y. Wessell, 39. acting president of Tufts College, to succeed Leonard Carmichael as Tufts' full-fledged president; American Historian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Report Card | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

William Baronoff, Richard K. Berg, Murry Biochin, Jerome A. Cohen, Russell C. Dilks, S. Gordon Elkins, Kiaus Eppier, Joseph M. Field, Alan Gladstone, Howard A. Gilckstein, Anne Gross, Alexander P. Hoffmann, Robert L. Lasky, N. A. Levin, Stuart M. Paley, Alvin H. Schulman, Genne R. Sliver, Daniel M. Singer, Gorden B. Spivacak, David R. Tillinghast, Gerald Walpin, George C. Zachary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWENTY-THREE OF FIFTY ONE DISAGREE | 10/5/1953 | See Source »

...hero of this story is a sliver off the old Chip. The rest of the characters are sawdust. But there is every sign that James Hilton, an author who rarely takes any wooden nickels, will do just as well with this book as with its seven sentimental, bestselling predecessors. Hilton's Random Harvest, The Story of Dr. Wassell, So Well Remembered have sold more than a million copies each, and Lost Horizon and Good-Bye, Mr. Chips have each sold more than 3,000,000. Time and Time Again is already on its way into several hundred thousand American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Repeat Performance | 8/24/1953 | See Source »

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