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In Geneva, city of lost and unreal causes, an air of unreality surrounds the 17-nation disarmament conference. Both the U.S. and Russia have large, competent and patient delegations on hand, ostensibly to work out an East-West disarmament agreement, including a nuclear test ban. There is very little hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disarmament: Concession to Obsession | 8/3/1962 | See Source »

Lolita, as Sue Lyon impersonates her, could be 17, which is ancient for nymphets. As a result, James Mason's obsession with her seems like just one last pathetic middle-aged man's fling. Comic Cut-up Peter Sellers saves the scenes he steals.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Jul. 27, 1962 | 7/27/1962 | See Source »

It seems patently absurd to abolish a method which has so many counts in its favor as has the lecture system. Moreover, there may well in small group teaching, for old Martin observes "Maybe it do well to have only small obsession with method grows, Chicago method, or with the...

Author: By Philip M. Boffey, | Title: The Lecture System: Its Value at Harvard | 6/14/1962 | See Source »

To Victor Gruen, 58, a lively Vienna-born leprechaun, solving the problems of the deteriorating downtown has become something of an obsession. The automobile, he says, is downtown's most virulent enemy. "No automobile-not even the most elegant Cadillac-ever bought a thing." Dismount the shopper, free him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The City: Filling the Doughnut | 4/20/1962 | See Source »

Simply put, Russia's writers are seeking truth. Evtushenko's verse and his contemporaries' conversation come back to the word time and again. Their generation has seen truth ripped from maps and histories; their search for facts is an obsession. After Stalin's death, Evtushenko went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: A Longing for Truth | 4/13/1962 | See Source »

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