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...furnishings, etc. In so doing, U.S. industry passed a major milestone. For the first time since the big arms buildup of Korea, peacetime capital outlays passed military spending, despite an arms budget of $36 billion in 1956. It was a final answer to foreign critics such as Australian Economist Colin Clark, who had called the U.S. boom a depression-prone economy, propped up only by armament spending...
When Britain's stringy-maned lion of letters, brash Author Colin Wilson, 25, published his 288-page tract, The Outsider (TIME, July 2)-a widely hailed diagnosis of civilization's sickness and a prescription of a new religion to cure it-few had ever heard of him. But Britons have been nearly deafened ever since by Wilson's roaring. Aping the brusque hyperboles of one of his few idols, George Bernard Shaw, Wilson has gone about insulting both hosts and lecture audiences, damning society for its regressive complacency, whimsically denigrating Shakespeare ("a great poet with the mentality...
...more than 3? a composition. In the modern-music field, 10,000 copies mean a rare bestseller, bring only $300. But the mere fact that a work is put on permanent vinyl plastic makes its composer seem more substantial. One of today's most popular contemporary LPs, Colin Mc-Phee's Tabuh-Tabuhan, had a grand total of three performances between its creation, 20 years ago, and the time it came out on records (Mercury) this summer. Since then, at least half a dozen groups have made plans to perform it. Most popular modern composers on disks: Bartok...
...compliments to the reviewer of Colin Wilson's first book, The Outsider [July 2]. It shows a luminously intelligent study and portrayal of an intense theme as if written by the author himself...
...unique in that often (nearly half the books reviewed) the author himself has been interviewed by a TIME reporter at home or abroad. Among the recent reviews that have included "takeouts" of the authors, you may recall those of Mary McCarthy (Nov. 14), Simone de Beauvoir (May 28) and Colin Wilson (July...