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...Balcony. To French ex-Convict Jean Genet the world is a brothel, and his play-more interesting for its conception and staging than for the playwright's wild threshings of language-is set in a brothel where customers are dressed as bishops, judges and generals to salve their egos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Apr. 25, 1960 | 4/25/1960 | See Source »

...that, “This idea has reached its time” was right: Integration as an issue seems to have reached a crisis in recent months. But the time itself is pregnant. With the revival of SANE after a two-year hibernation and the abrupt recognition of a convict named Chessman who has been fighting for his life for 10 years will attest, there had to be a time for these ideas to reach...

Author: By Jonathan R. Walton | Title: Sit in and Be Counted | 4/20/1960 | See Source »

Three playwrights-an English poet, a French ex-convict, an American scarcely out of college-are giving off-Broadway audiences more philosophy (both weird and traditional), more wit and more theatricality than can be heard or seen in Broadway's most wretched season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OFF BROADWAY: Weirdness & Wit | 4/18/1960 | See Source »

...testify in court against Abel, the best the FBI could do was ask the Immigration and Naturalization Service to arrest Abel as a deportable alien. Then came a break. In his room, when seized, Abel had plenty of incriminating evidence-cipher pads. 18 microfilms, phony birth certificates-to help convict him for espionage four months later. Sentence: a $3,000 fine, 30 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SUPREME COURT: Rightful Cooperation | 4/11/1960 | See Source »

...census takers were obliged to ask whether the respondent was perhaps a former convict, a pauper, or an idiot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CENSUS: One, Two, Three .. . | 4/11/1960 | See Source »

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