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...like good music." All jazz started off "boo-boo-boo-boo-boo," complained the Soviet Premier, setting it to his own clopping time by dancing a jig on the front lawn of Spaso House. Russian or American, it was all Chinese to him, and so was that other whatchamacallit, abstract art. Amateur Painter Dwight Eisenhower once told him that modern art "makes me sick to the stomach," and Nikita bobbed his head approvingly: "It's the same with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 13, 1962 | 7/13/1962 | See Source »

...years with no drop, economists became more cautious. They now predict a decline in such indefinite terms that they can't be wrong. Only the future will determine whether the U.S. is now undergoing a "rolling readjustment" or "recession," or merely passing once again through a period of "Whatchamacallit," i.e., a troubled economic period which gives rise to all manner of dire predictions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

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