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...previous conclusions. I have eaten from the same plate, drunk from the same glass, and slept in the same bed, while praying to the same God, with fellow Muslims, whose eyes were the bluest of blue, whose hair was the blondest of blond, and whose skin was the whitest of white. We were truly the same brothers, because their belief in one God had removed the white from their minds, the white from their behavior, and the white from their attitude...

Author: By Henry W. Mcgee. iii, | Title: 'By Any Means Necessary' | 6/2/1972 | See Source »

...phenomenon of color intensification under LSD is well known, and Painter Heinz Trökes experienced it intensely. "Whenever I frame the color white," he said, "the color starts to burn. My God, this white becomes the whitest white of my life. Now a bird ap pears in its midst. But then it begins to look like a volcano, ejecting bright colors." Perhaps significantly, the abstractionists in the experiment showed far more resistance to mind expansion. Action Painter K. H. Sonderborg displayed few discernible effects, though he reported seeing thousands of strange little animal figures that he found impossible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Painting Under LSD | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

...easy permissiveness until, at film's end, the two couples wind up in bed together at a Las Vegas hotel. There they seem to come to their middle-class senses in a denouement that is the biggest cop-out since Sidney Poitier appeared as the world's whitest black man in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. Mazursky's direction is impersonal and, at best, functional; his idea of good cinematography is getting everyone in focus and lighting the scene as if it were being shot inside a toaster. A few episodes (a session with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Festivals: Distributors' Showcase | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

...swart gevaar (black danger), wit baaskap (white bossdom), or just plain apartheid. Last week, when South Africa's 1.7 million white voters went to the polls, there was no new term for Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's racism, but both major parties were claiming to be the whitest of the white. So extremist have the nation's politics become, in fact, that Segregationist Verwoerd was even accused of being soft on blacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: Forward with Verwoerd | 4/8/1966 | See Source »

...opening a lunch area on the parapet of Harvard's latest, tallest, whitest, modern building, the administration could seize the initiative in restoring a lively sense of community to its alienated student body...

Author: By Jonathan Schell, | Title: Lunch in the Clouds | 5/14/1965 | See Source »

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