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...Cult of Chosisme. To re-educate the reflexes and the expectations of readers, Robbe-Grillet has established a writing credo which has been called chosisme ("thingishness"). In extreme moments, thingishness runs to steady repetition of precise, often geometrical descriptions of anything from a razor blade to a banana plantation. U.S. moviegoers have been subjected to the incantatory power of the Robbe-Grillet technique in the off-screen commentary he wrote for the narrator in Last Year at Marienbad (for some it had a soporific monotony). Objects are important to Robbe-Grillet in themselves, but also in relation to people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Neo-Realists | 7/20/1962 | See Source »

Duke of Kent, 26, gay blade in the Royal Scots Greys: a son, tenth in line to the British throne: in Tver, England. Title: Earl of St. Andrews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 6, 1962 | 7/6/1962 | See Source »

Three Canadian newspapers-the Toronto, Ont., Globe and Mail, the Kingston, Ont., Whig-Standard and the Regina, Sask., Leader-Post-dropped the pig-goat sequence. (As a substitute the Globe and Mail reprised a Pogo swampland series from the 1940s.) In the U.S., the Toledo Blade temporarily killed Kelly. And in Tokyo, the English language Asahi Evening News, having run the sequence for 11 days, agreed to drop the rest of it after a protest from the Soviet embassy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Politics Is Funny | 5/25/1962 | See Source »

...inch the professional soldier. Under him serve some 5,000 U.S. troops (soon to be raised to 8,000) including the U.S. Special Forces, who are all volunteers, all former paratroopers. Their elite status is marked by a bright green beret with a badge bearing crossed arrows and knife blade, and the legend De Oppresso Liber-roughly, To Liberate from Oppression. It is General Harkins' demanding job to fuse these few thousand experts with the willing but incompletely trained armed forces of South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem-170,000 regulars, 68,000 Civil Guard troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: To Liberate from Oppression | 5/11/1962 | See Source »

...have to play all kinds of courses - many of them awful. I had to find different clubs, learn a lot of new shots. I had to learn to putt from off the green. I had to change my putter. I've always used one with a very light blade; it was fine for the fast greens I played on as an amateur. But as a pro, I had to be ready for any kind of green." The weather, said Nicklaus, was often worse than the course. "At San Diego, I had to learn how to play frozen greens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Problems of a Pro | 5/11/1962 | See Source »

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