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...that of TIME International, was defined some years ago by Henry R. Luce: "To put into the hands of anyone who wishes to read it, wherever in the world he may be, a copy of the unexpurgated standard edition of TIME in English, not later than the date of issue...
...veterans give Myers his most solid evidence of the true rate of attrition by age. Of 2,100,000 men in the Union Army in the 1860s, there were 430,000 drawing pensions in 1914, all of whom had given reasonably satisfactory proof of age. By 1945-at which date one of those 15-year-old drummer boys who enlisted in the last weeks of the war would have to be 95-there were only 210 Union veterans left. In 1954, only one survived, and he died...
...eyes are bright and alert, his face marvelously expressive, and until four years ago he was still working in the cotton fields. His recollections of life as a slave and of his later service in the Union Army are remarkably detailed, but a family Bible that recorded his birth date happened to be lost when his cabin burned down four years ago. That doesn't bother Magee. After all, Lyndon Johnson sent him special greetings for his 124th birthday in 1965, and last year he discovered the earthly delights of wine and cigarettes. With an eye to the pearly...
Ancient, But Up-to-date...
Anouilh underlined the contemporaneity of his play by employing a good deal of low-level speech such as the ancient tragedians avoided, and by specifying the use of modern dress in performance. The current Stratford production is as up-to-date as today's newspapers. It is framed by the on-stage playing of a rock 'n' roll combo, with a bunch of teenagers frugging away (including Antigone's sister Ismene, in a yellow and black miniskirt). The Greek chorus has been reduced to a single commentator by Anouilh (as Shakespeare had done with the Chorus in Henry...