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...candor seems to be replacing cant, and the picture should soon come more clearly into focus for Hanoi. "The enemy is only going to respond to pressure," Westmoreland told an interviewer before leaving for Saigon. "Once he realizes that we're no pushover, that his country is being drained when its finest manpower moves south, never to return, that his industry is being destroyed, that at the same time South Viet Nam is on the upswing, he will reassess his strategy. Once he realizes that we're ready, willing and able to continue this pressure, the facts...
...clear by this week's cover story on birth control and "the pill." The article traces the history of "the pill" over two decades of trial and error; it deals with its medical aspects as well as with its moral and social implications. It was written by Gilbert Cant, TIME's Medicine writer for 18 years, edited by Peter Bird Martin and researched by Jean Bergerud, with the help of many TIME correspondents. The cover picture is the work of Photographer Robert S. Crandall, who assembled most of the currently available pills into a shape representing the scientific...
...door seems to be like most paradises: merely dull. Its cities die at dusk, and those of its citizens who venture forth show on their faces the ennui, the boredom, of people who are constantly subjected to ideological blasts. East Germany's 40 daily newspapers are full of cant and propaganda, and even an annual folk fair has to be called a "Festival of Creative Socialism." Its intellectual life is almost totally noncreative, since voices that speak or hands that write with less than extreme caution quickly get their owners in trouble...
...highly healthy shape (1953 was a year of record revenues of $170.5 million), Harry Luce looked around for another challenge. In 1954, he and the company decided on a daring venture: a sports magazine that would chronicle "the wonderful world of sport" (Luce's phrase) without the cant and cliches that marked most sport reporting. As he reasoned: "It is a safe premise that there would not be a tremendous interest and participation if sport did not correspond to some important elements?something deeply inherent?in the human spirit. Man is an animal that works, plays and prays. No important...
...Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade, as written by Playwright Peter Weiss and performed by Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company under the direction of Peter Brook, was the decade's most cinematic drama. In a churning rowdydow of rant, cant, poetry, politics, music, magic, rite and ribaldry, the play moved across the stage like half a dozen movies mingling incompatibly on a giant screen. When Director Brook finally came to film the play, he simply let his cameras zig and zag and make lazy eights above the steamy business; then...