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...basic stock pitch, made it over 150 times until he groaned, "God, I'm tired of hearing that same speech." Week after frustrating week he was scheduled into small rural towns across the nation, carried on with grim determination to do his mediocre best, until the spark had gone, the acid evaporated, and only a handful of home-town cronies aboard the silver-and-blue campaign plane were left to dispel the gloom. "I know exactly what I'm going to do if I lose," he quipped to a friend, "but I don't know what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Election: Off the Treadmill | 11/4/1964 | See Source »

...present impassioned age cold indeed. Yet these writers played a large part in shaping modern notions of good and evil, pleasure and pain, freedom and tyranny. They are also eminently readable, writes Basil Willey, English-literature professor for 18 years at Cambridge. His engaging little book may well spark a rationalist revival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rationalist Revival | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

...Spark The Girls of Slender Meaue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: This Week's Bestsellers In the Square | 10/22/1964 | See Source »

Given the variety of possible objections to the report, one may ask, which ones will spark sufficient controversy to cause significant amendments? At the moment, except for those concerning the administrative reorganization, the answer is, probably none...

Author: By Ben W. Heineman jr., | Title: Faculty Politics and the Doty Committee: Consensus or Debate? | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

High Recommendation. "I don't see any of the copy unless I ask for it," says Catledge. "But any time there's a big development, they'll come and tell me. One of the chief functions of the managing editor, of course, is to spark ideas, and this will continue, both for the managing editor and the executive editor. In my new job I'm the publisher's agent, to spark and manage an interesting paper. But anyone can have a good time with this staff. They would make anyone look good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers: View from the Heights | 9/11/1964 | See Source »

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