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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proper amount of eccentricity by Upton Brady) appears as the pettifogging proprietor of a "think-shop," a sort of Rube Goldberg of the intellect with his head in the clouds of the title; and his students stoop over so their brains can look for profundities while their arses master star-gazing. The playwright achieved a special mixture of satire, criticism, obscenity, invective, wit, fantasy, and lyricism-all within a set of conventions as rigid and complex as those of the 18th-century opera buffa...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Clouds | 4/11/1959 | See Source »

While the team may lack a great individual star of the caliber of Junta and Yale's Don Dell, its depth is impressive. There are quite a few fine men below the present first ten, and Barnaby says he is "particularly pleased with the large number of potentially good players who have shown a continuous interest...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: Bowditch, Gallwey, Weld Top Strong Tennis Team | 4/10/1959 | See Source »

...into a tailspin: Dr. Mortimer J. Adler, director of the Institute of Philosophical Research. Yet the column has pulled 150 letters a week since it began appearing last October. This month the Sun-Times will syndicate Philosopher Adler in the Los Angeles Times, the Houston Chronicle and the Washington Star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Thought, Syndicated | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

...mouth blocked. To find out just how formidable the effects are, London's Dr. E. P. Sharpey-Schafer and California Musician Maurice Faulkner last summer sat down in London. Faulkner huffed his way through several trumpet passages, including a phrase from Wolfram's Song to the Evening Star in Act III of Tannhäuser. In reporting their findings in the British Medical Journal, the researchers noted that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Inflated Trumpeter | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

Certainly the most famous and perhaps the most beautiful baby born last week was a Jewish girl named Elisheba Rachel Taylor. For according to Jewish legal theory, every convert is "a newborn child." And last week 27-year-old Film Star Elizabeth Taylor became a Jew and acquired a ceremonial Jewish name: Elisheba, the Hebrew version of Elizabeth, and her own favorite Biblical heroine, Rachel, the "beautiful and well-favored" wife of Jacob (Genesis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Convert | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

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