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President Kennedy's favorite book concerns a British statesman who made a policy of keeping his country at a standstill for close to a decade and boasting of it. Issued now in paperback, this famed biography of Lord Melbourne makes plain that he was one of the most indecisive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Indolent Statesman | 8/3/1962 | See Source »

The two laudable portrayals of the evening do belong to Evans. The first is Biron's soliloquy "And I, forsooth, in love!" from Loye's Labour's Lost. The second is the scene in Midsummer Night's Dream where Bottom and his cronies prepare the "Pyramus and Thisbe" episode; here...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Shakespeare Revisited | 7/23/1962 | See Source »

As a TIME reader of some 14 years and a Democrat for about the same period, may I say I am just a bit weary of tiresome Republican readers who pester us so mercilessly with petty little anti-intellectual, xenophobic notes about Mr. Kennedy. He is a damn fine President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 29, 1962 | 6/29/1962 | See Source »

As if in search of clues of foreboding, many Atlantans reached back to reread cards and letters that their friends had sent, and to recall the last words they had spoken before leaving Atlanta. Housewife Mary Louise Humphreys had written: "I will never be quite the same after this trip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Georgia: The Cherry Orchard | 6/15/1962 | See Source »

He was noted for his seven-volume text and delightful translation in the Loeb Classical Library of the works of Athenaeums, a Greek antiquarian of the second century A.D. valued especially as a source of quotations from lost authors of the Greek past. His revision of the standard Greek grammar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GULICK DIES | 5/25/1962 | See Source »

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