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...speak Shakespeare, to do wonders with an intonation, know also how to join hands. Desmond Heeley, with his charming costumes and simple set resembling an old, delicately drawn tailpiece or design, knows how to achieve a background. There is for once in the theater the sense of letting something deathless prove its mettle and not of belaboring something lifeless to move its limbs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Play on Broadway, Dec. 22, 1958 | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

...four children, picked up pocket money carrying the San Francisco Call and Chronicle, was a better-than-average student, starred in extracurricular activities. "I have always wanted to be a leader," he recalls. He won first prize in a grade school oratorical contest, ended his speech with the deathless words: "Give me liberty or give me death!" That promptly got him dubbed Patrick Henry Brown-and he has been Pat Brown ever since. But leadership had its problems for cautious Pat Brown. He was easily the best-liked kid at San Francisco's Lowell High School, served as cheerleader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Just Plain Pat | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

...crouched-and-waiting cab in 1928. Davis worked some ten years for him, cracked: "Every year he raised my pay but no matter how much money he gave me I still wouldn't marry one of his daughters." Davis provided Jimmy Durante with the Schnozz's deathless evaluation of Lana Turner: "Take away her sweater and whatta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 11, 1958 | 8/11/1958 | See Source »

...discredit TV even while they promote it. Item: Scripps-Howard's New York World-Telegram and Sun in the past month has run four Page One stories quoting authorities ranging from Poet Carl Sandburg to Scriptwriter Goodman Ace in dispraise of TV's "cultural smog" and "deathless mediocrity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: 37 Million Can't Be Wrong | 7/8/1957 | See Source »

...eulogy is needed, however, to dramatize the legacy of Sigmund Freud to his generation and generations to come. Christianity brought to Western civilization the conviction that man is governed by his God through his deathless soul. Along came the Renaissance and then the 18th century rationalists to counter this doctrine with another faith: man is re sponsible to reason alone; there is no God. no immortal soul. Then came Sigmund Freud to champion a newer hypothesis: man. without a God. is largely governed by a strange, little-known power called the Unconscious. It was a startling, indeed a discomfiting theory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Explorer | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

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