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...credo, which appeared early - "i would/ suggest that certain ideas gestures/ rhymes, like Gillette Razor Blades/ hav ing been used and reused/ to the mystical moment of dullness emphatically are/ Not To Be Resharpened" - left many "tra ditional" poets blitzed and unforgiving. He is antiscientific : I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance He is the foremost celebrant of love among modern poets -"we're wonderful one times one" is a reiterated theme. "I have no sentimentality at all. If you haven't got that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONALITY: Education, Nov. 3, 1952 | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

...birth of a kid named Jimmy and it said 'I was only born yesterday, but I'm for Stevenson." Those who have been with the train for weeks laughed. "He's been saying that since Texas, we're collecting money to buy little Jimmy a razor...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: Press Likes Stevenson 40-8; Disagree on Election Winner | 10/29/1952 | See Source »

Overnight, Herbert Hoover was turned into a scapegoat for the economic sins of a whole generation. Charles Michelson, the Democrats' razor-tongued publicity genius, pilloried him before millions as a hapless homunculus responsible for all the nation's ills. Disgruntled citizens called the dear departed boom the Hoover boom. The depression, Democrats jeered, was the Hoover depression. The huddled shanties near the railroad tracks, where ragged men cooked garbage over old oil drums, were called Hoovervilles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A President's Ordeal | 9/8/1952 | See Source »

...Edge. In Chicago, William Hinkle, 19, went to a hospital after swallowing more than a-dozen razor blades, snarled at inquiring doctors: "You figure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 7, 1952 | 7/7/1952 | See Source »

...from another Manhattan collector and valued at $25,000, and Gauguin's la Orana Maria, from the Metropolitan Museum. All four had been slashed, and two completely cut from their frames one to two inches from the edges. Shaken museum officials promised that expert restoration would hide the razor marks so no one would ever notice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Rogues in the Gallery | 7/7/1952 | See Source »

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