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"I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them, travel abroad, experience the horror of sordid passion, and-if he is lucky enough-know the love of an honest woman." Having thus enjoined the S.R.O...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 15, 1961 | 12/15/1961 | See Source »

In Germany's postwar politics, Schröder has shared Adenauer's impatience with parliamentary institutions, argues that the nation needs "a strong government, strongly led." Schröder, who was named deputy floor leader for Adenauer's Christian Democrats in 1952 and has been Interior Minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Oldest Young Man | 11/10/1961 | See Source »

With patience, stubbornness and political cunning. West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, 85, has for years avoided being pinned down on the fascinating question of when he will retire. Heirs apparent have aged while waiting in vain for der Alte to step down. Last week he was finally forced to commit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Not till '63 | 10/27/1961 | See Source »

In the film's first scene, the teen-aged hero (Warren Beatty) and heroine (Natalie Wood), a couple of nice kids from Kazansas, are shown in cinema's stock petting situation. Later that night the heroine's stupid, insensitive, greedy, cunning, smarmy, gabby, hypocritical, vicious and even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Love in Kazansas | 10/13/1961 | See Source »

Meanwhile the hero's stupid, insensitive, greedy, cunning, loudmouthed, backslapping, drunken and even crippled slob of a father (Pat Hingle), the all-American marketype of the guy with the big business and the teentsy soul, reaches down to the bottom of his heart and comes up with a moldy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Love in Kazansas | 10/13/1961 | See Source »

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