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...tired scenery, oopsy ballet, timid stagecraft, ruthless mugging of the Met may have irritated operagoers more often than not. But the end of the season brought gloom last week to one of its fans: burly, weather-beaten Joseph Bartnik, traffic cop at the corner. A onetime burlesque-house tenor, Patrolman Bartnik likes to drop in on rehearsals, has had many a pass for Met performances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Season's End | 3/31/1941 | See Source »

Eating. Everybody knows the timid, sluggish, clumsy, socially maladjusted type of fat child. Usually glandular disturbances have taken the blame. But Dr. Hilde Bruch of New York thinks that mollycoddling mothers are often the answer-mothers who forbid their children normal exercise and play for fear they will get hurt, who baby them beyond their needs and age. Such children do little, eat a lot because they have little else to do-a double promoter of obesity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Children: How to Cure Them | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

...base, imposed a 10% income tax surcharge (to raise about $123,000,000 this year) and a corporate excess-profits tax (to raise about $106,000,000). With a Federal deficit estimated at $6,289,000,000 this year and $9,310,000,000 next year, these were timid gestures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Businessmen on Taxes | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

...little creature down, he said. Let us not be cruel to the innocent creations of Almighty God. If it is not poison and grows no larger than a mouse and does not travel in great numbers and has no memory to speak of, let the timid little thing return to the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Slack-Wire Miracles | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

...Workshop Press Cooperative last summer. It is composed of people who spend July and August "cooperating" on Ocracoke Island, N. C. One is a Cherokee Indian chief. An other is Blanche C. Weill, whose Through Children's Eyes, "the story of the 'naughty' child and the timid child, told by themselves," was published the same day as Will You Marry Me? A newer cooperator is Robert Haven Schauffler, author of a standard life of Beethoven. The cooperative offers courses in art, literature, creative writing, radio-script writing, Indian crafts, life saving. Through Children's Eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sentimental Bundle | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

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