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Loudspeakers wake the populace at 5:30 a.m. daily for calisthenics, summon the hapless inhabitants to compulsory afternoon political meetings. Diversions are few. Hanoi cinemas now show only Russian and Red Chinese films, and there is talk of abolishing the traditional Vietnamese theater because, in the words of one official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTH VIET NAM: A Poor Place to Visit | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

Perhaps the best of Comden-Green is their quicksilver asides. In a take-off on 42nd Street flesh cinemas ("Doors open promptly at 3 a.m."), Doorkeeper Betty barks: "You've heard of Madame Pompadour, you've heard of Madame DuBarry. Now dig Madame Curie, the greatest madame of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BROADWAY: A Party for Friends | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

The second play is the more important one. Citing it in a recent article in the New York Times the British author Stephen Spender said: "The way in which a talent can be damped down by success to the faintest squeak of social protest is shown (here) ... where the writer...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: A Summer Drama Festival: Tufts, Wellesley, Harvard | 9/18/1958 | See Source »

Citing this play in an article in last Sunday's New York Times, the British author Stephen Spender said: "The way in which a talent can be damped down by success to the faintest squeak of social protest is shown (here) ... where the writer's plea for sympathy with the...

Author: By C. T., | Title: Separate Tables | 7/24/1958 | See Source »

Almost every university student is subsidized, and the freshly graduated physicist can count on making at least $200 a month, plus another $100 for research, which is good money in the land of the proletariat. The government thinks nothing of building whole "science cities," equipped modern villas, clubs, cinemas and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Brahmins of Redland | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

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