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...orient the reader? For the pages are unnumbered, and X himself is never referred to except in the instructions. He does not speak. He is never described. He is an unmoved viewer of objective scenes into whose visions only the barest and rarest hints of emotion are allowed to creep-resignation at being yoked to Marianne, his mercilessly neurotic French wife; pain at the loss of Dagmar, his blonde German mistress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dealer's Choice? | 11/8/1963 | See Source »

...elephants wear sneakers? A. To creep up on mice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fads: Elephants by the Trunk | 8/2/1963 | See Source »

...will be moderate for the Trieste, which has already cruised to the bottom of the Marianas Trench off Guam, 35,800 ft. down, but the strong currents off Cape Cod are a serious threat. Though proof against water pressure in the deepest ocean, Trieste has feeble propulsion. She can creep only four or five miles at about 1.4 m.p.h.; during the 45 minutes that it will take Trieste Skipper Lieut. Commander Donald L. Keach to guide his strange craft to the bottom, unexpected currents may carry her out of sight of the sunken submarine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oceanography: The Search for Thresher | 6/28/1963 | See Source »

...This flibbertygibbet Korn is a real creep," says Susskind, "a squingy little man, a cultural illiterate. He has no high plane except the plane of his forehead. He is one of the great finks of this world. He is the kind of cipher that hurts our business. This is an infringement of freedom of speech. It is censorship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Closed End | 5/10/1963 | See Source »

There is no denying both Ehrenburg and Yevtushenko have quarrels with the Soviet regime. But they value survival, and allow their opposition to creep into their work only by implication, and only occasionally...

Author: By Steven V. Roberts, | Title: The Politics of Dissent: Turmoil In Soviet Literature | 3/19/1963 | See Source »

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