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...already been limned in considerable detail (TIME, May 6), the trial shed light on several crucial questions raised by the case. Why, for example, did Sylvia not escape from the Baniszewski house, where police found her lacerated body last October? From the testimony, she emerged as a simple, stoic girl who resigned herself to her early mistreatment, only to become too numbed and weakened by its later savagery to resist. At first, when Sylvia was abused, her sister testified, she would "just grit her teeth and shake her head." After young Hobbs, using a heated anchor bolt, branded Sylvia with...
...slippage has stepped up. Thus, Zurich values are down 6½% this year. Amsterdam is down 8½%, the German Herstatt index is off 12½% and Paris Bourse prices are down 2½%. There is one bright spot on the European market scene: after a very bad 1965, stoic British investors, convinced that inflation is here to stay and that stocks are the best protection, have upped the 'London Exchange 5.5% this year. And some groups of stocks, including gas, because of recent North Sea discoveries, and aircraft, because of improved profits, are up an average...
...stoic banking center of Zurich is the only city in stolid Switzerland that can claim to have fostered an art movement. Ironically, it was dadaism, which purported to prize meaninglessness over meaning. The movement was born one day in 1916 in Zurich's Cabaret Voltaire, where a couple of artistic types flipped open a dictionary and chose the first word that struck their...
...cannot bring into focus the young man of 20. If we were to meet today, we would have little to say to each other. [There would be] his ruthless naiveté, his clammy embarrassments, his lyrical sensitivity in the throes of his own emotions, his stoic indifference toward the feelings of others...
THREE recent covers provoked comment from an extraordinary number of readers with insights of their own. All three were strong and inherently controversial works -Rufino Tamayo's stoic study of Actress Jeanne Moreau (TIME, March 5); Ben Shahn's volatile gouache of Martin Luther King (March 19); Sidney Nolan's evanescent whirl of Dancer Rudolf Nureyev (April 16). Some readers found them unusually exciting; others objected vigorously, and a few thought them downright malicious...