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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sitting at a battered desk, engrossed in his reading. The reading matter: TIME. Clerk Gavera, a native Papuan, explained that he is a faithful reader of TIME (as are 1,000 other New Guineans), with a special interest. "I like stories about satellites," he said, "and TIME has the best ones." The other New Guinea tale from Correspondent Hubbard is reported in PRESS, Roll-Your-Own Newspaper...
...week's end, after seeing the best that North Viet Nam had to offer, Sukarno departed for home, where he has troubles of his own, and where Lieut. General Abdul Haris Nasution, who has run Indonesia in Sukarno's absence, summed up Indonesia's current situation in one word: "Gloomy...
Room at the Top (at the Kenmore). Perhaps the best British film since Alec Guinness and Jack Hawkins teamed up in The Prisoner, this is a deeply penetrating and significant study of English sex and society, with some of the frankest and most adult dialogue ever to come across the screen. As an aging mistress, Simone Signoret gives a devastating performance that justifiably won the Cannes Festival's award for the "best performance by an actress." Named "best picture of the year, 1959" by the British Film Academy...
Paths of Glory (at the Brattle, Friday and Saturday). The Saturday Review last year acclaimed this as "the best picture of the year." It is a tough, uncompromising, hard-hitting film about the French army during World War I. Several countries considered it too strong for their audiences and refused to allow it to be shown. In it, Kirk Douglas shows for once that...
...supporting roles represent different attitudes towards love and marriage. Of these the best-drawn are Friar Laurence and the Nurse; but their portrayals, by Hiram Sherman and Aline MacMahon, fall short. Morris Carnovsky as Capulet and Nancy Wickwire as his Lady are both commendable; Capulet's denunciation of Juliet is particularly forceful...