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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Ulysses was published in 1922, it showed Joyce's matchless command of the English language and his finger on the tragicomic pulse of human life. If that life sometimes seemed tinged with an indefinable futility, it was because Joyce tried to construct a universe without God. In such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dublin's Prodigal Son | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

Maximum Security. The story is told by two narrators, Joe Sharon, an alcoholic prison counselor, and Hastel Desai, a diabetic inmate. This method creates a bifocal picture of Southern State Penitentiary at Creighton and its chief inhabitants, the most important of whom is "the treatment man," an assistant warden and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Penmanship | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

"These things happen in all progressive movements," muses the habitual criminal, Kinney, and there is gruesome comedy in Pryor's hypocritical proclamation of "a new era of sound interrelationships between inmate and administration in the prisons of America." Novelist Wiegand has effectively told a prickly parable of power and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Penmanship | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

Pillow Talk. A sometimes fluffy comedy with Supporting Player Tony Randall darning all the yoks, and Stars Doris Day and Rock Hudson on hand to supply scenery.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: On Broadway, Nov. 9, 1959 | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

Newsstands all over Boston were mobbed yesterday by people trying to buy out-of-town newspapers as the local branch of the International Typographical Union continued its strike.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crowds Buy Out N.Y. Newspapers | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

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