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...print for decades. This collection includes: The Gambler and The Double (two remarkable studies of pathological personalities) ; The Friend of the Family ("justly famous," says Mann, "for . . . a comic creation . . . rivaling Shakespeare and Molière"); The Eternal Husband (which creates the "eeriest effects" out of a "ludicrous cuckold['s] . . . malicious anguish"); Uncle's Dream (a Dickensian farce); the famed Notes from Underground ("an awe-and terror-inspiring example of ... sympathy and . . . frightful insight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Truth's Dark Side | 1/21/1946 | See Source »

...improved technique of artificial insemination allows one bull to do the work of 80 or more. So many more bull calves are now turned into veal before they reach maturity. In Nebraska, bulls have decreased by 3,000 since science stepped in to cuckold them. Some 20,000 Nebraska cows were test-tube bred last year and a statewide program is aiming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Vanishing Bull | 10/22/1945 | See Source »

...sling. It gives explicit instructions on how to spit and truss a fowl, lace a football, mend a garden hose, string pearls, fly a kite, string a fiddle, tie a necktie. It offers such engaging oddments as the Norfolk-to-Washington Boat Heaving Line Knot, Department-Store Loop, Cuckold's Neck Knot, Bathrobe Cord Knot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Knotmare | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

...plausible impression of being just such a towering man as was Othello himself. More important, Robeson conveyed the bigness of Othello's nature-its warmth, poetry (nobody in Shakespeare utters lordlier speech), simplicity, trustingness: the clawing horror which seizes Othello when lago dupes him into thinking himself a cuckold could come only from an utterly unjealous nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Tragic Handkerchief | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

...recipe for Grade-A propaganda: it must be so exaggeratedly simple that the masses will get the point at once. Gone With the Wind is an exaggeratedly simple account of the brutality of American imperialism. A pack of Yankee cutthroats on a nameless West Indian island frame, cuckold and dishonor a simple, honest, hard-working South American doctor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Vom Winde Verweht | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

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