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...evening's redeeming feature were the compositions themselves. A composer can weave simple musical threads into a dazzling fabric or unravel good broad-cloth until it is lint. Bach and Mozart chose to weave simple tunes into golden cloth...

Author: By Wilson LYMAN Keats, | Title: Early Music: III | 11/29/1961 | See Source »

...Hustler. Director Robert Rossen racks up an impressive total score in this tale of a young pool paladin (Paul Newman) who learns on the Field of the Cloth of Green that character, meaning Old Champ Jackie Gleason, is more important than talent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nov. 3, 1961 | 11/3/1961 | See Source »

With Helicopters. How can the U.S. help? Conventional tactics against the shadowy Viet Cong, a Vietnamese official pointed out last week, are "like playing soccer with a tennis racket." Despite an impressive speedup in the flow of U.S. supplies, for example, Saigon warehouses are stacked with deteriorating carbines, cloth, medical and communications equipment. Reason: Diem's six-year-old army has made no" provision to handle the increased flow. Many combat units have to use guns that have no gun sights or are so badly worn that they jam more often than they fire. Yet new U.S. weapons seem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: A Problem of Help | 10/27/1961 | See Source »

...Hustler. A young pool shark (Paul Newman) takes on the old champion (Jackie Gleason) in a sort of chivalric joust on the Cloth of Green. In the hands of Director Robert Rossen, the uncouth theme rings as true as a struck spittoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Oct. 27, 1961 | 10/27/1961 | See Source »

...Hustler. A young pool shark (Paul Newman) takes on the old champion (Jackie Gleason) in a sort of chivalric joust on the Cloth of Green. In the hands of Director Robert Rossen, the uncouth theme rings as true as a struck spittoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Oct. 20, 1961 | 10/20/1961 | See Source »

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