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Nothing works - not a hokey assignation between Brody's wife and a predatory ichthyologist, and especially not an eat-'em-up ending that lacks only Queequeg's coffin to resemble a bath tub version of Moby-Dick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Overbite | 2/4/1974 | See Source »

...fact, it is the best studio. It is also the product of the devotion of a handful of people. Yet because it is at Harvard, it is taken for granted, that the studio is outstanding. Association assumes superiority: Harvard is Harvard, home of every tub on its own bottom, and of the Radcliffe Pottery Studio (The Radcliffe Studio of Harvard University). One would think that it would be better able to handle that motto than most Harvard dependents--that its autonomy would be insured. That is not the case...

Author: By Ellen A. Cooper, | Title: ...For Whose Sake? | 12/3/1973 | See Source »

...Every tub on its own bottom is a fine philosophy--as long as the potters have the means to continue making their own tubs...

Author: By Ellen A. Cooper, | Title: ...For Whose Sake? | 12/3/1973 | See Source »

Onstage, Moon sells his ideas like a tub-thumping evangelist, slapping his fist into his hand to make a point, belting out his words in enthusiastic Korean, which an aide quickly translates. After two decades of such evangelizing, Moon's church and its affiliates (One World Crusade and the Freedom Leadership Foundation, among others) seem to be just hitting their stride. Although orthodox Christians recoil from Moon's teachings, the Moonists claim 600,000 followers worldwide, with perhaps 100,000 "core members" who are willing to give up their personal lives entirely to work for the master...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Moon-Struck | 10/15/1973 | See Source »

...previous week, Nixon made a Friday foray out into carefully chosen country, this time Pekin, 111. He delivered another tub-thumping speech about America and his accomplishments, and was rewarded with warm smiles and applause. But then it was off to his Key Biscayne retreat and an encapsulated atmosphere where it is just possible that Nixon still knows, and understands less about Watergate than the average American television viewer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN NOTES (Watergate Division): A Man Alone | 6/25/1973 | See Source »

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