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...polite strata of most European society to lock sex in a darkened bedroom and pretend that otherwise (except for haut-monde libertines and the licentious "lower classes") it did not exist. For whatever inner need, the adolescent Freud accepted this viewpoint, once even warned his sister Anna off Balzac and Dumas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Explorer | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

Time Limit! (by Henry Denker and Ralph Berkey) is an effective thriller with a head in its tail. For most of the evening a flashback melodrama about a U.S. Army officer who went over to the Communists in a Korean prison camp, it winds up in what Balzac called "the trenches of the intellect," with a barrage of moral and mental queries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Feb. 6, 1956 | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

...that time he was already noted for the unusual breadth of his scholarship, which eventually ranged from such books as Ben Jonson and The Overreacher, a study of Christopher Marlowe, to Balzac, Flaubert, and Toward Stendhal. Appointed a full professor here in 1948 at the age of 36, Levin has taught courses varying from "Modern American Poetry," which he gave as a visiting professor at Tokyo University last summer, to "Shakespeare" and "Proust, Joyce and Mann...

Author: By James F. Gilligan, | Title: Prodigious Prodigy | 11/26/1955 | See Source »

...Artist Sutherland trying to do in oils what Rodin did in bronze? Sutherland's robed Churchill [Oct. 31] and Rodin's robed Balzac bear a close resemblance-in form if not in feeling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 21, 1955 | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

...legend for those who never made the grade, has been occupied by such greats as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose loose living and houseful of illegitimate children were too much for the academicians; Encyclopedist Denis Diderot, who was a deal too outspoken; and plump, ill-dressed, Bohemian Honoré de Balzac, who seemed just too much of a mess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Green Fever | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

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