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...into battle and often piously shoot to miss, but it is considered highly bad form to wear the amulet into a bordello. And though Vientiane's whisky-tippling set often honors Buddha's fourth rule more in spirits than in spirit, at least their chauffeurs use only the softest tail feathers of a rooster to dust the Mercedes-so as to avoid crushing the least ant, who could well be somebody's mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Buddha on the Barricades | 12/11/1964 | See Source »

...that I heard had removed a portion of the President's head, and he slumped noticeably to his left. Mrs. Kennedy had jumped up from the seat and was, it appeared to me, reaching for something coming off the right rear bumper of the car, the right rear tail, when she noticed that I was trying to climb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Jackie | 12/4/1964 | See Source »

...where a hopelessly square photographer asks the addict hipsters "D'ya got any Pot??" and, to his anguish and humiliation, they mimic him. There was none of that exclusive cruelty in Allen, a sweet, sensitive man who was, as they say of Lassie when she barks and wags her tail furiously at the sheriff's men, only trying to tell me something...

Author: By Jacob R. Brackman, | Title: Allen Ginsberg | 11/24/1964 | See Source »

...comes from the strains, the poverty, the squalor of our society." And in a series of violent manifestoes, the hungries singled out their enemies, including hypocrites, conventional writers and politicians whose place in society lies "somewhere between the dead body of a harlot and a donkey's tail." To "let loose a creative furor," the hungries last summer sent every leading Calcutta citizen-from police commissioner to wealthy spinsters-engraved, four-letter-worded invitations for a topless bathing suit contest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: The Hungry Generation | 11/20/1964 | See Source »

Despite the lid of censorship, there are those lucky students whose freshman advisors have let the magic number slip out in the course of cock-tail conversation, and those doubly lucky ones who, when told their number, found it was a good one. A smiling senior in the second category confided, "I've been group five for three years running, but I'm always able to say, 'I'm smart; the College had me pegged for group...

Author: By Philip Ardery, | Title: PRL--The Secret Summary of Every Harvard Man's Intellectual Status | 11/16/1964 | See Source »

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