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A strapping, hamhanded man with slicked-back hair and brooding mustache, Michelangeli ambled onstage with the baleful nonchalance of a boxer bent on mayhem. Once he settled at the keyboard, his touch was featherweight light, his attack crisp and restrained through Debussy's liquid Images and Beethoven's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pianists: Reluctant Master | 7/9/1965 | See Source »

>Monica Vitti, brooding about fate in The Soup, mocks her own sullen beauty with surprising verve as an impoverished young wife yearning to rid herself of a wretched husband who slurps and belches at mealtime. She is "lucky enough to be hit by a car," and invests her meager insurance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Four for Foolery | 7/9/1965 | See Source »

Seelenkleister, or brooding about the state of one's soul, has always been a pastime of the Germans, but now they have more than usual cause to engage in it. For years, the economic miracle represented a kind of occupational therapy, a materialist escape; while it remains the dominant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE GERMAN AWAKENING | 6/4/1965 | See Source »

A significant part of the U.S. Government's time is taken up with assessing, answering and trying to influence world opinion. Whether he likes it or not-and there are signs that Lyndon Johnson likes it less and less-the President of the U.S. finds himself engaged in an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE U.S. & WORLD OPINION | 5/28/1965 | See Source »

Eddie Amsel is fat, clever, half-Jewish. Walter Matern is lean, brooding, half-heartedly Aryan. Matern protects Amsel when other schoolboys mock his fatness or yell "sheeny." He cannot tell why he does this, nor why sometimes he squirms away from his obligation to protect and yells "sheeny" himself. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hound of Hell | 5/28/1965 | See Source »

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