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...debatable at best; together, they are not an argument but a plea for passivity. The danger of such wishful thinking, as the State Department's Walt Rostow has warned, is that "out of a false sense that the cold war is coming to an end, out of boredom or domestic preoccupations, or a desire to get on with purely national objectives, we will open up new opportunities for the Communists to advance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: COMMUNISM TODAY: A Refresher Course | 8/6/1965 | See Source »

Cocktail-Party Talk. Dozens of like emotional divertissements are catalogued in this slender volume, which was written mainly for psychotherapists and reads that way; in Berne's terms, for example, human boredom becomes "structure hunger." But after publication last August, the book slowly began to catch on not only with the referees but with the players. A modest first printing of 3,000 has been succeeded by eight more, for a total of 83,000 copies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Names of the Games | 8/6/1965 | See Source »

Chekhov's Uncle Vanya is a very thin crust of tension spread over a layer of boredom. A retired professor and his young wife come to their country estate they draw to their circle a country doctor who comes to treat the professor's gout and stays to admire his lady. The life of the estate comes to revolve around this trio; the country people are sucked into shaping their once-tedious lives around the newcomers, until finally, when they depart, those who remain can only sigh again and again, "They're gone...

Author: By Donald E. Graham, | Title: Uncle Vanya | 7/22/1965 | See Source »

...easy" play. does not bury his audience kling little nuggets of like Beckett's "Ah, earth, extinguisher!", and it is overlook or ignore much Dumb Waiter's depth. Loeb production I overall gentleman explain to his "The Dumb Waiter two hired killers who get from upstairs; Happy about boredom and the of life...

Author: By R. ANDREW Beyer, | Title: The Dumb Waiter | 7/15/1965 | See Source »

...novel will win any prizes. Celine is a casually wicked misfit who cannot abide middle-class posturings. So she marries Philippe, a stuffed middle-class shirt who is "obsessed with the Absolute the way some people are with golf." Middle-class sex with Philippe only accentuates Celine's boredom, and so she drifts into some high-class sex with her friend Julia, which seems to make life tolerable until Julia gets killed in an automobile accident. Well, that's the way the chassis crumples. Author Rochefort says that married life is hell for a woman who is married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Current & Various: Jul. 2, 1965 | 7/2/1965 | See Source »

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