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...spite of the excellence of both cast and play; in spite of Martin Gabel's direction and Boris Aronson's ingenious settings, "The Assassin" may not receive the acclaim it deserves on a musicomedy-packed Broadway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYGOER | 10/9/1945 | See Source »

...famed French poet and philosopher, successor of Anatole France to the French Academy in 1925; of a heart ailment; in Paris. His infrequent, esoteric works (La Jeune Parque, Le Cimetière Marin, Varétés I, II, III, IV) brought from his distinguished colleagues high acclaim, from lesser intellectuals charges of obscure pomposity, from himself the admission, "I am a difficult author - it is my kind of beauty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 30, 1945 | 7/30/1945 | See Source »

Nominees for the second rank are blessed with much less unanimity of acclaim. . . . For the second rank among the "immortals," I submit the names of Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, and Wilson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 23, 1945 | 7/23/1945 | See Source »

...maladjusted, maladroit and wonderfully incompetent and unreliable. His grousing, griping and goldbricking were a vicarious safety valve for other G.I.s. Now Author Brown has introduced Artie to U.S. civilians in a collection of 51 stories. Brown's earlier best-selling A Walk in the Sun won acclaim as a serious work, but Artie Greengroin, Pfc. is not likely to be hailed as a great comic work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Figure in History | 7/23/1945 | See Source »

Though the people loved and knew by heart scores of the poet's stanzas, they were now massed to acclaim the dictator Caesar in a "howl of joy . . . victorious, violent, unbridled, fear-inspiring, magnificent, fawning, the mass worshiping itself in the person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: 2,000 Years Apart | 7/2/1945 | See Source »

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