Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...land between the living and the dead-are a trio of business-suited bureaucrats in a chain of command that goes on into infinity. The role of the avenging Bacchantes, who tore Orpheus apart in the ancient myth, is now taken by a seedy bunch of envious poets who gather in what looks like Paris' Café de Flore. When characters shuttle between this life and the next, they glide through mirrors-Cocteau's favorite symbol of the doorway to death ("Look at yourself in a mirror all your life, and you will see death at work like...
...Jelep-la. Tibet is only 30 miles away. For that reason, Kalimpong has collected over the years a number of mystical characters who arrived via Jelep-la pass from Tibet, and another bunch who would give their last rupee to travel the other way. Foreign cultists, scholars, artists, adventurers and missionaries plod Kalimpong's streets, panting to explore Tibet and its particular brand of Buddhism, but lacking permission to get in. Last week, as they have since the Chinese Reds invaded Tibet in October, Kalimpongians waited breathlessly, along with rumormongering newsmen (TIME, Nov. 20), to welcome the Dalai Lama...
...only just die once in a while!" Carl Bleiken, a seven-year-old televiewer of Hingham, Mass., complained: "I like Bobby Benson of B-Bar-B Ranch better. He's more truer. Hopalong never gets wounded, but Bobby Benson does. There's a whole bunch in Bobby Benson, and they have good teamwork, not like Hopalong Cassidy." But the deadliest arrow was launched by little Jack Clough of Rye, N.Y. Jeered...
...Poonsters have, for this issue, abandoned the scissors-and-paste technique of magazine production and written some bright new copy. This is all to the good; it is a shame to cut holes in a bunch of perfectly usuable back numbers...
This move was incorrectly taken to be an official banning of the John reed Club, but this interpretation has since been refuted by the Dean's office which has explained its action as a move to prevent a bunch of "outsiders" from using University facilities...