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...drop of gasoline used in the country now flows down from the north in caravans of 20 to 50 Russian gas trucks to sell for a giveaway 25? a gallon in Kabul. Exports (furs, fruit, carpets) that used to stop and go at the Khyber Pass with every Pakistani whim now travel north to more cer tain Soviet markets. U.S. officials estimate that there are already several thousand Soviet do-gooders spreading their blessings in Afghanistan. Last week Kabul's only modern hotel was jammed with members of the 200-man Russian delegation to the city's international...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: Toward the Khyber | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

...moment of triumph, Nominee Adlai Stevenson announced a decision that gave the 1956 Democratic Convention its highest, wildest moments: he left the nomination of a vice-presidential candidate entirely to the will and whim of the delegates without a word about his personal choice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Wide-Open Winner | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

...cherished stigmata of the True Artist-a "slight figure and sensitive face, dark eyes and delicate pallor," and at every crisis he coughs blood. His father is appalled when Stephen insists he Wants To Paint. "To throw away your brilliant prospects, wreck your whole career, for a mere whim," he wails. Stephen is adamant: "The only thing that mattered was this creative instinct that burned within him." He Renounces All, including the love of the neighboring squire's daughter, a girl with an "air of quiet composure, a sense of inescapable good breeding," who appreciates "the essential fineness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: All for Art | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

...wonder what odd capricious whim Could create this figure of visage grim. One thing is clear for all to see Who view her image: no Monroe, she. I can't truly say that I envy the bloke Who owns the lady of the artichoke; Then why go and pay a fortune small, To have her hanging on his wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 14, 1956 | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

Academic freedom, weighted with difficulties (particularly of definition), hastily invoked upon the least provocation to justify any whim or action, is a term recklessly vulgarized and deserves better treatment. Academic freedom can be defined as that right which aids scholars in the pursuit of truth. This freedom ceases to be a right and becomes a revocable privilege when the student or teacher loses truth as the end and substitutes mere expression of opinion. If human fulfillment, to which the academy is devoted, is to be realized, an immutable truth, observed as the mind may comprehend it and confirmed by conscience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALGER HISS | 5/10/1956 | See Source »

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