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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time a thoroughgoing professional and a global intellectual, a military and civilian thinker who, during off-duty hours on overseas tours, studied Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Russian, even Chinese. During a South Pacific tour, his carousing comrades came upon him at night, studying by candlelight a book called Micronesian Languages, When he was an Air Force assistant attache in Moscow, he wrote some of the best air-intelligence reports about the Soviet Union that the U.S. had ever received. As a longtime Pentagon staff officer, he managed to steer clear of cliques and cabals, and win a reputation for sheer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The Power For Now | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

Common but Uncommon. "In successive stages of development of the legal order each later stage builds upon the preceding stage. To the principle of certainty established by the strict law the stage of equity and natural law adds the upholding of morals; the maturity of law adds to both the promoting and maintaining of the demands and expectations of the individual human being; and to all this the socialization of law is adding the promoting and maintaining of the expectations common to all men in a world where we must live and move and have our being in cooperation with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LAW: One Legal World | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

...Harvard Faculty Committee on Student Activities must approve all joint organizations, upon recommendation by the Student Council. In addition, the Radcliffe S.G.A. and a Radcliffe administrative review board must approve the group...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deans Give Permission To Form Joint Groups | 11/22/1957 | See Source »

...light on the floor. It was very long and dark; smooth like a boat; with bright handles. Half the top was open. There was a strange, sweet smell, so faint that it could scarcely be realized. Rufus had never known such stillness. Their little sounds, as they approached, vanished upon it like the infinitesimal whisperings of snow, falling on open water. There was his head, his arms; suit; there he was ... He saw him much more clearly than he had ever seen him before; yet his face looked unreal, as if he had just been shaved by a barber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tender Realist | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

Little more than a year ago, the name of self-taught Colin Wilson, then 25, got on British intellectuals' lips; today, it gets on their nerves. The critical cheers that greeted The Outsider turned to catcalls upon sight of its sequel. Religion and the Rebel. Flicked the Daily Express's Nancy Spain: "If civilization needs a new prophet, it will take more than the Boy Colin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Tohu-Bohu Kid | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

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