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...faculty can easily unmask the student deferment as discriminatory, since it basically protects only those fortunate or rich enough to stay in college and graduate school until they are no longer draftable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Faculty and the Draft | 12/6/1966 | See Source »

...bend wiretapping rules in the interests of fighting crime. The New England Telephone Co. recently admitted to monitoring calls "to determine the quality of customer service." Senator Thomas Dodd's aide blandly defends the lifting of his employer's documents on the grounds that he wanted to unmask wrongdoing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: IN DEFENSE OF PRIVACY | 7/15/1966 | See Source »

...synthesis of street-scene pop and the cool world of science, Chryssa's Gates, like many other neon artists' works, is just a flickering glimpse of what pure light sources may someday offer when incorporated into art. Rembrandt depended on sunlight to unmask his carefully constructed layers of color. The impressionists struggled to depict in dabs of oils the natural light that bounced off haystacks into their eyes. Tomorrow's artists may ladle their color, at 60 cycles per second, right out of the rainbow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculpture: A Times Square of the Mind | 3/18/1966 | See Source »

...read with bitter surprise your article devoted to defaming and offending in a cowardly way the memory of my deceased parents [July 10]. When I made the decision of declaring before the world the truth about Cuba, and of thus helping to unmask the existing regime in our country, I did it conscious of the difficulties I would have to face. I knew that I was putting myself in a position in which I was going to be attacked by the partisan press of international Communism. I knew that they were going to try to demoralize me politically. I even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 14, 1964 | 8/14/1964 | See Source »

...Echelon men 15 to 25 M to minimize casualties." This tone of taut realism is characteristic of the book. Its author, also anonymous, gives these instructions for testing for the presence of poison gas: "Nerve agents being quick killers, make test with detectors, then have 2 or 3 men unmask for 5 min.... If no symptoms, unmask...

Author: By Hendrik Hertzberg, | Title: Two Army Pamphlets: Genre Classics | 7/30/1963 | See Source »

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