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...high instinctual ideals of political freedom and economic dynamism remain exemplary goals for a world which seeks a leader. In asserting our strength, we can no longer afford to denegrate the accomplishments and efforts of our allies, or our enemies. Vanity must yield to realistic confldence, and condescension must bow to sincere cooperation...

Author: By Robert H. Neuman, | Title: Coming of Age | 11/14/1957 | See Source »

...bugles sounded, the drums beat, and the entire orchestra rose to a grand finale of cannon fire. The Moscow audience applauded the symphony warmly, but not with unusual enthusiasm. Wearing a dark, double-breasted suit, Composer Shostakovich walked up to the stage and took a breathless, jerky bow. Correspondents noted that he was fighting a nervous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Shosty's Potboiler | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

...current issue of Lampy provides the Bow Street answer to libidinous impulses--an existentialist sense of humor. Themes in "The Battle of Hastings Memorial Issue" range from assassination and divorce to nightmare and heart attack...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: The Joker's Motley Garb | 11/7/1957 | See Source »

...criticism of the novels involved is both incisive and original. The films chosen are The Informer, which he classifies as a mediocre novel made into a superlative film; Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, The Grapes of Wrath and The Ox Bow Incident, excellent novels resulting in excellent films; and Madame Bovary, a classic that was butchered in adaptation...

Author: By Gerald E. Bunker, | Title: Novel into Film: A Critical Study | 11/6/1957 | See Source »

...were relatively passive until late last year when a nve-year-old girl was dragged into the bush near Dodoma, killed, disemboweled and dissected. Soon afterward, local justice learned the reason. A native woman had a grudge against her son because he had thrown her second husband's bow and arrows out of his hut (a grave insult). With the support of her sister, she sent a messenger to hire a lionman from a.sorcerer in the next village. "It was a human being," the messenger told the court, "and it was a woman. It walked like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TANGANYIKA: Murder by Lion | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

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