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Sir: TIME'S feature on "Today's Teenagers" [Jan. 29] was delightful reading. To attempt a coherent account with subjects so elusive and mercurial is indeed a formidable assignment and one handled, I think, with great competence. I was glad to note your observation that "the key word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 12, 1965 | 2/12/1965 | See Source »

The exuberance that the actors transmit to us makes the fairy tale's happy ending even more delightful. But Giraudoux's philosophical conclusion is not sanguine. His satire is too sharp, his villains too sinister, to lull us into sleepy security. Though evil may have been destroyed in the fantasy...

Author: By Gregory P. Pressman, | Title: The Madwoman of Chaillot | 2/10/1965 | See Source »

Good writing is rare enough. Storytelling is an even rarer skill. A genuinely comic vision is beyond price. The Ordways has all three. Seven years after his doom-laden first novel, Home from the Hill, William Humphrey has made a surprising switch from tragedy to mock epic. The result is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Graveyard Bustling with Life | 2/5/1965 | See Source »

A bigger surprise is Italian Actress Lisi, an import whose dramatic talent graced two dozen European films before Hollywood discovered her smartly turned sense of humor. Speaking scant English, newly blonde and lacquered to the customary high gloss, she translates her U.S. movie debut into a triumph of personality that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Homicidal Bash | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

The venerable Harvard CRIMSON in its haste to make a humorous situation ridiculous has surprisingly erred in its presentation of the facts. In Friday's paper you stated. "In Dunster House, officials of the HCUA circulated a petition opposing her (Miss Levine's) candidacy." The only official of that unfortunate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ERRATA | 1/18/1965 | See Source »

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