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...rumination. But they are not enough to blunt the book's theme: the enormous human need to feel valuable in a dangerous, complex world, where men are numbed or manipulated by remote control for what may or may not be their own good. As embodied in the aggressively bathless Carl Lundquist, the theme lingers like Whitman's line, "the scent of these armpits is aroma finer than prayer." The sentiment is a noble one, but like Poor Devils itself, not likely to be taken too seriously in a society that seeks salvation by spraying together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Name of the Game | 3/9/1970 | See Source »

...leader. They're gonna reject materialism, no matter how much they have to sponge off the parents. They're showing a new morality, no matter how immoral they have to be to prove it. They're going to scrub the world down, no matter how bathless they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 12, 1969 | 9/12/1969 | See Source »

...rich and autocratic King Saud. It would be inconvenient, but inconveniences could be tolerated in Baden-Baden for a party prepared to pay $10,000 a day. While Willy mobilized, other Baden-Baden innkeepers embarked on the difficult task of persuading their own guests to double up in bathless bedrooms in order to take care of the princely overflow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAUDI ARABIA: Make Way for the King | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

...very important mission" for Colorado's burly Senator Ed C. Johnson, a shocked and disillusioned Ingrid Bergman fan who was determined to improve Hollywood's morals by federal licensing of its players and producers (TIME, March 27). But Investigator Jackson had hardly settled into his small, bathless hotel room before a morally indignant Hollywood began peppering him with abuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Man with a Mission | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

CRIMSON "share-the-shower" plans went down the drain last night when editors learned that their campaign to bring bathless New York college girls to Harvard tubs might be considered a violation of the Mann...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lawyers Splash Cold Water On Crimson's Bathtub Plan | 12/21/1949 | See Source »

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