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Missing Town. Reports from the remote battlefront were hard as ever to decipher. Information Minister Bouavan Norasingh called in newsmen one day and announced that "three battalions of Russians, Pathet Lao and Viet Minh" had just invaded from North Viet Nam near the town of Ban Le. But when pressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laos: Clamor Overhead | 1/20/1961 | See Source »

The real answer, at least to me, is the direct answer. "Plays for audiences" are planned for the Harvard Theater because there are no other plays. It is possible for poets to write letters to themselves (though Emily Dickinson, who was perhaps the most private poet who ever wrote, called...

Author: By Archibald Macleish, BOYLSTON PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC AND AND MEMBER OF THE FACULTY COMMITTE | Title: Loeb's Function, 'Plays for Audiences,' Not Inconsistent with Artistic Integrity | 10/14/1960 | See Source »

"But I'm seasoned now, and I know what I'm doing." South High students agree ("Most teachers discuss-Keables teaches"). Says one senior: "In Keables' classes you compete with every other student he's ever had. I've written my heart out trying to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: How to Learn to Write | 5/23/1960 | See Source »

The study of Latin offers two great rewards among others: in the first year the student learns to decipher dates on cornerstones, and in the seventh or eighth, if he is clever, he is able to read the Satyricon. The randy classic, which deals with a kind of conjugation untouched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gutter Odyssey | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

The most serious question: had there been an off-to-Buffalo shuffle with A.G.V.A. sick and relief funds? Member contributions are recorded only by number, not by name, so that only Bright and his staff can decipher who deserves what. In addition, a separate corporation called the A.G.V.A. Foundation, headed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VAUDEVILLE: Blondie v. Blackie | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

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