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...with the several views of him self that Patrick wants to cultivate: the dutiful son, the weak but loving husband, the homosexual friend in power. The letters also give Isherwood a chance to poke fun at Olde England in parodies ("This brassy tea, this wooden toast, these chalk-white scrambled eggs as dry as leather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Brothers & Others | 4/21/1967 | See Source »

What the customers seem to like about all these performers is that they are all as different as chalk and cheese. They cannot be typed; they are individuals. They don't look like actors; they look like themselves. They look like vital, intelligent, stimulating men and women, and they act the way they look. They act, in fact, like the very thing most big Hollywood stars were not: thoroughly trained professionals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actresses: Birds of a Father | 3/17/1967 | See Source »

...Answer: "Sir, she walks, she talks, she's full of chalk. The lacteal fluid extracted from the female of the bovine species is highly prolific to the 11th degree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Service Academies: Hilton on the Hudson | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

...insincere members succeeded in displaying their ignorance and in developing an inaccurate image of the Harvard undergraduate; the incident was ably chronicled by the New York Times and the late newscast on CBSTV. However, chalk this one up for the Administration; SDS should have punted on fourth down. JEFFREY DONNE

Author: By W.bruce Springer, | Title: Harvard May Refuse to Give HUAC Membership Lists of Peace Groups | 11/16/1966 | See Source »

...radio's business." He finally accepted, though, at double his U.P. salary, which, after ten years, was still only $125 a week. When the Korean war broke out, he was hired by CBS and made an impromptu TV debut giving a lecture on the war, complete with chalk and blackboard. He was such a hit that against his better judgment he was soon shifted to television news. "It was a time," he says, "when no self-respecting newsman wanted anything to do with this new electronic beast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Most Intimate Medium | 10/14/1966 | See Source »

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