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...attempt to set back a force which cannot be stopped. In the same way that segregation in American schools is doomed, the progress of education and the enlightenment it brings makes its constant advance a necessity. Soothing as it is, Malan's dream of the happy savage will not cure his internal disorders; the Union has offered the natives real education too long to force them to accept mere subsistence knowledge from their schools...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Back to Bantu | 1/7/1954 | See Source »

...elderly and conservative, there are Gay Nineties tunes; for the young, bop. Except for deliberately sedative programs, strong rhythm is essential to get attention. After contact with the patient has been regained, the doctors can go to work with occupational and recreational therapy. Music itself is no cure, but it has helped so many patients that Dr. Witten says: "We don't talk in terms of hopeless cases; we don't believe there are any." Now 30 of the patients are so far recovered that they turned the tables on the staff, put on their own music program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Jingle Bells | 1/4/1954 | See Source »

...Hong Kong last week, a local movie star endorsed a popular patent medicine with the ultimate tribute: "It cures you like Buddha." Hong Kong itself, for more than 100 years the warehouse of the Far East, was also taking a cure. Amid cries of street hawkers and the deafening uproar from a string of 100,000 firecrackers to drive off evil spirits. Hong Kong's Governor Sir Alexander Grantham stepped up to a huge, towered gate decorated with neon lights, elaborate flowers and the Union Jack. Snipping a ribbon, he opened a powerful testimonial to the cure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: The Buddha Cure | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

...Kindly cure my insomnia, if possible, by an answer to this riddle. Samuel W. Mills...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRASS PLUCKER | 12/18/1953 | See Source »

...routine shots of some gleaming Sabres, the film is devoted to a lot of thick talk about getting to bed early and to some aggressively cheerful gynecologic humor: "Oh, morning sickness the whole darn day"; "There's nothing wrong with me that three, more months won't cure." The Cinecolor is something to see-all the blondes look like redheads, and the redheads are purple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

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