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...this film, Producer Stephen Bosus-tow, 42, has proved his point that "the animated film can be used for drama and melodrama as well as for humor, childish romance, pratfalls and 'hurt' gags." Canadian-born Steve Bosustow founded United Productions of America seven years ago after being fired by Walt Disney. In his own company, he operates without time clocks and gives credit where credit is due. Director Ted Parmelee and Art Designer Paul Julian get most of the bows for The Tell Tale Heart, just as other U.P.A. production teams are accorded credit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: 7 Minutes With a Madman | 9/14/1953 | See Source »

Clarification. In Jal, N. Mex., after police had put up a traffic sign reading: "School Zone-Don't Kill a Child," they found a postscript written in a childish scrawl: "Wait for a Teacher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 1, 1953 | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

Professor Walsh's little book, Campus Gods on Trial, is a compact champion of Christianity against the secularism of the modern college. Unfortunately, like a competent lawyer with a speech defect, Walsh gives poor expression to a persuasive case. Even the ideas of Pascal sound pretty shallow in the childish lisp which the author conceives as "the language of the student." Analyzing Existence as "a three layer cake," the book abounds in silly metaphors, terming Christ "the penicillin of Salvation" and the Incarnation "God's rescue operation." His attempts at jazzy writing are equally dismal, whether describing a "Warm Fire...

Author: By R. E. Oldenburg, | Title: Campus Gods On Trial | 4/22/1953 | See Source »

...administering his country's program of voluntary emasculation, feels Denmark is effectively treating sex criminals instead of punishing them, points to some statistics: in Denmark only 3.7% of voluntarily castrated sex criminals repeat their crimes as compared to 43% of the uncastrated. He considers the U.S. attitude a childish and hypocritical taboo. "In America," he says, "a surgeon can operate on any organ in the body, including the brain. But he may not operate on the testes. That is a hypocrisy which the mature society of Denmark refuses to accept." How will the Jorgensen case affect the future treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Case of Christine | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

...editors will have more trouble corraling such a stable of foreign professionals for its future issues, but since it is to be only a quarterly, there is hope that consistency will be upheld. And most important of all is the fact that the present generation, without blasts of childish rebellion and with its collars still carefully buttoned-down, has produced a magazine of its own, a magazine dedicated not to any inbred school of literature, but to the simple god of quality...

Author: By Michael J. Halberstam, | Title: Paris Review | 4/10/1953 | See Source »

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