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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Herman Weiss, another American tourist, explains to Juniper the depth of Judaism: "You don't understand, padre. You see, the Christians have never been prosecuted." Milton Selzer, who portrays Weiss, teams with Patricia Bright, his wife in the play, and Miss Latham to present a searing and ribald caricature of antiseptic American tourists in the earthy land of Mexico...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Juniper and the Pagans | 12/15/1959 | See Source »

Playing on its home courts, the varsity displayed both depth and excellence in avenging last year's 6-3 loss at Annapolis. As the results of the matches came in, Navy's hopes of retaining the Eastern Intercollegiate Squash League championship became increasingly modest...

Author: By Bartle Bull, | Title: Squash Varsity Eliminates Navy As Emmet Continues Undefeated | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

Navy's claim to great depth was compromised by its failure to take a single game from Holleran, Vinton, Lake, Lemann or Smith, who played numbers three through seven for the Crimson. In one of the most conclusive matches of an already decisive day, Peter Smith won his first game 15 to 1. Alden Briggs and Doug Poole completed Navy's defeat by taking the two final matches...

Author: By Bartle Bull, | Title: Squash Varsity Eliminates Navy As Emmet Continues Undefeated | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

MARTEREAU, by Nathalie Sarraute (250 pp.; Braziller; $3.75). This novel, by the author of the diamond-hard Portrait of a Man Unknown (TIME, Aug. 4, 1958), suggests that reality, like a geometer's plane, has only surface, no depth. A young male invalid, living with his rich aunt and uncle, develops an obsessive womanish curiosity about manners and motives. He becomes acute enough to predict the exact course of his relatives' household skirmishing, and concludes therefore that he understands the skirmishers. His error does not matter until he begins analyzing Monsieur Martereau, a family friend-a steady, solid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Surface Without Depth | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

They Came to Cordura. A sort of western Pilgrim's Progress through the Mexican badlands with moral depth, wartime violence and Gary Cooper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Dec. 14, 1959 | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

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