Word: skeptics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...since opera was born. On the one side, there is the opera fan-emotional, sensitive, not only susceptible to the soothing charms of music but imaginative enough to see that, give or take a few embellishments, opera is life. On the other, there is the opera foe-the rationalist skeptic who thinks that life and art are subject to reason...
Subsidized Control. Though Dr. Nayar herself had long been a birth-control skeptic in the Gandhi tradition (she was once his private physician), she agreed three years ago to test the Lippes loop, a U.S.-designed intrauterine contraceptive device that prevents the development of a fetus in the womb. Only eleven of the 2,839 Indian women fitted with them last year became pregnant, and five of these conceived after their little white loops had been removed. That convinced her, she said last week, that Lippes loops are "the answer" to India's problem...
...Even a cursory examination of the Clay-Liston bout [June 4] should convince the severest skeptic that vaudeville is not dead...
...foremost among them Tom Wicker, whose "Kennedy Without Tears" first appeared in Esquire this summer and is now a book. Wicker attacks the basis of the Kennedy legend at some length, and tries to set up a different Kennedy: a man who was not forever moving forward, but a skeptic, full of humor at his own foibles and others...
Ehrenburg is equally vague about himself. He expresses few of his own thoughts, has scarcely any explanation for the abrupt shifts in his career. A confirmed skeptic in the 1920s, he was dubbed "the caraboid," the name of a beetle which ejects a fine stinging spray. In his early novels, Julio Jurenito and The Stormy Life of Lasik Roitschwantz, Ehrenburg mocked Right and Left, capitalism and Communism (when Roitschwantz was republished in the U.S. in 1960, it was much to his embarrassment). But in the 1930s, he became a militant Communist, began cranking out "social realism" clinkers that glorified...