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...Immoralist (adapted by Ruth & Augustus Goetz from Andre Gide's novel) is perhaps the most outspoken treatment of homosexuality that Broadway has seen. Very likely it is also the most serious and dignified. Though treating nothing prissily with kid gloves, Playwrights Goetz treat everything clinically with rubber ones. Unlike Gide's spiritually autobiographical novel, the play is less the study of a man than the story of a marriage...
...commands no military divisions rode through the streets of Rome one day this week. Once he would have ridden on a white mule, but in 1953 he went in a black Cadillac. Crowds jammed the lovely, narrow streets of the city of Augustus, of St. Peter, of Garibaldi, of Comrade Togliatti. The cheers shook the ancient stones. Women wept. Children, perching on their fathers' shoulders, waved and repeated the shout they heard all about them: "Viva il Papa, Viva il Papa...
...woman, who dominated the news of the year and left his mark, for good or ill, on history. Picking the Man of the Year for the first January cover has been a TIME tradition since the first week of January 1928. Then the choice was clear: Charles Augustus Lindbergh, the young man who on May 20-21, 1927, soloed the Atlantic in 33 hrs. 30 min. and captured the admiration of the entire world...
...modern nations stretching from the Dniester to the Nile, from the Adriatic to the Persian Gulf. In 1919, British warships still rode in the Bosporus and British troops held Constantinople; Italy, France and Greece were secretly dividing up the best of the remainder. The greatest empire between Augustus and Victoria had shrunk to a small, lifeless inland state in the barren interiors of Asia Minor; its Sultan was reduced to the status of a borough president of Constantinople. There was talk of asking Woodrow Wilson to take over the mess as a U.S. mandate...
There were some rather conventional heads; softer, less formal busts, mostly in terra cotta; small plaques, mostly religious in subject; two lead statues, Standing Figure of a Boy and The Bird Boy, both pseudo-Grecian, idealistic pieces. Outshining them all was a bust of Augustus John, a shaggy, forceful bronze that seemed like a quick-frozen hunk of the old man. Said Time & Tide: "A searching interest in humanity . . ." Reported Fiore: "Augustus said I was a master. He may have been a little tipsy at the time, but I think he meant...