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Romney strikes me as coy, Goldwater as bluffing, Rockefeller as shrewd, crude and lewd. I cannot abide Kennedy's policies, but I give him credit. He continues to sell himself personally, as he did over his infinitely better qualified opponent, Richard Nixon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 14, 1963 | 6/14/1963 | See Source »

...drawings are often too large and too well worked out to be tossed off in such a manner. Hugo signed them in big bold letters, parted with them only as gifts to cherished friends. Far from being casual, says Sergent, Hugo was merely being coy to avoid serious criticism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: He Also Wrote Novels | 4/26/1963 | See Source »

...type of painting that many collectors thought good in Robinson's day was the storytelling picture that would run a sugary gamut from coy to mawkish. Robinson himself turned out a few canvases with titles such as A Canine Patient and A Rail Fence Flirtation, but he did not tolerate that kind of "potboiling" for long. He first went to France when he was only 24, and there he gradually fell under the spell of the new painters. Though the paintings of his good friend Monet made him "blue with envy." he took away only a fresh appreciation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Robinson Revisited | 10/19/1962 | See Source »

...never asked me." It's like that all the way through three long acts: hackwork by a great playwright. Shaw's intention, no doubt, was to present a series of outrageous sentiments in elegant language, but all that he actually achieved was a preposterous plot, a smattering of coy jokes and wheezy epigrams and a brace of cardboard characters (there's even a comic Cockney...

Author: By Anthony Hiss, | Title: Captain Brassbound's Conversion | 10/4/1962 | See Source »

...never asked me." It's like that all the way through three long acts: hack-work by a great playwright Shaw's intention, no doubt, was to present a series of unjust sentiments in elegant language, but all that he actually achieved was a preposterous plot, a smattering of coy jokes and wheezy epigrams, and a brace of cardboard characters (there's even a comic Cockney...

Author: By Anthony Hiss, | Title: Captain Brassbound's Conversion | 8/6/1962 | See Source »

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