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JONATHAN SWIFT, by Nigel Dennis. A clinical closeup of the most powerful ironist in British letters, who was also the blackest of all the great blackguards to lacerate man's conscience, until his own raging soul sank into stupor and lunacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Feb. 5, 1965 | 2/5/1965 | See Source »

...toenails. As traditionally abridged, Gulliver's Travels is a charming classic for children. Yet Gulliver unexpurgated is no tale for tender ears; it is a ferocious assault on the human species. And Swift unsweetened is no nursery rhymester; he is the most powerful ironist since Aristophanes, the blackest of all the great blackguards who have lacerated the conscience of mankind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Conjur'd Spirit | 1/15/1965 | See Source »

...COMPLETE WAR MEMOIRS OF CHARLES DE GAULLE (1940-1946). A moving chronicle of one man's fighting faith in France in his blackest hour. De Gaulle was grimly aware of the price of total commitment, and far more accurately than Roosevelt and Churchill, he gauged the realities of the postwar world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Cinema, Books: Sep. 18, 1964 | 9/18/1964 | See Source »

...COMPLETE WAR MEMOIRS OF CHARLES DE GAULLE (1940-1946). A moving chronicle of one man's fighting faith in France in his blackest hour. De Gaulle was grimly aware of the price of total commitment, and far more accurately than Roosevelt and Churchill, he gauged the realities of the postwar world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sep. 11, 1964 | 9/11/1964 | See Source »

...COMPLETE WAR MEMOIRS OF CHARLES DE GAULLE (1940-1946). A moving chronicle of one man's fighting faith in France in its blackest hour. Le Grand Charles, as the '60s think of him, was grimly aware of the price of total commitment, and far more accurately than Roosevelt and Churchill, he gauged the realities of the postwar world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sep. 4, 1964 | 9/4/1964 | See Source »

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