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...Better not to open that door. It leads into the old Manichaean heresy: the world as battleground between the divine and the diabolical, the outcome very much in doubt: "La prima luce," Dante's light of creation, the brilliant ignition of God, against the satanic negation, the candle snuffer. Those uncomfortable with the idea of evil mean this: You don't say that the shadow has the same stature as the light. If you speak of the Dark Lord, of the "dark side of Sinai," do you foolishly empower darkness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Evil | 6/10/1991 | See Source »

...Folk Singer Skip Morrow, 29, spoofs livelier kitties. The Second Official I Hate Cats Book employs a perplexed, Woody Allen-style feline as a polo ball, a terrified moose-hunting decoy and a freaked-out monastery candle snuffer. Morrow, who lives in southern Vermont with his two cats, Nina and Lucy, does not hate cats but rather what he feels people have made of them. Human avarice, not atrocity, is the root of the problem. Says Morrow: "There's so much schmaltz from the pet industry. You see it on TV and in stores. My work is a comment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Those Catty Cartoonists | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

While still in his early teens, Claude Brown was the coolest of Harlem cats: smoker of pot, snuffer of cocaine, graduate of two reform schools, expert in the arts of bebopping (gang warfare), Murphying (a form of pimping), jugging (fornication) and stinging (armed robbery). Then Brown moved downtown, found a square job, took up the jazz piano and earned a high school diploma attending classes at night. This autobiography is Brown's testament, not to his redemption but to his misspent youth. Nowhere does he explain what inner strength rescued him from himself; the reader must consult the dust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Current & Various: Aug. 27, 1965 | 8/27/1965 | See Source »

GEBELEIN, master silversmith at 79 Chestnut Street in Boston, has been associated with original, fine, silverwork ever since Beacon Hill has been associated with Boston. The show room and shop are in the same building, and offer such items as this candle snuffer, the handle a replica of Paul Revere's sword and the top, a model of his hat. This item goes for $10.00, and is but one of the many objects in modern and antique silverware offered at Gebelein...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Gift Suggestions... | 12/13/1951 | See Source »

...investigation of Arabian oil in the immediate future would be against the background of U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East. To take a hard look at this smeary oil picture, the Senate committee has called in former Senator Burton K. Wheeler (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), a skilled scandal snuffer who first won national attention while investigating Teapot Dome. Wheeler has not yet decided whether a fulldress investigation is warranted. But last week all signs pointed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: The Smell of Scandal? | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

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