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Finally, the parallel implied between my position and that of the White Citizens Council is not fruitful. I detest segregation, although I may not always faithfully follow the SNCC view...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VIOLENCE AND MISSISSIPPI | 5/5/1964 | See Source »

...because the lover is dead. You find them answering the telephone in the back-street cab stands of little towns, their hair freshly bleached, their nails painted, their high-arched shoes ready for dancing with someone who cannot come." > Pity is the cruel emotion: "If there is anybody I detest, it is weak-minded sentimentalists-all those melancholy people who, out of an excess of sympathy for others, miss the thrill of their own essence and drift through life without identity, like a human fog, feeling sorry for everyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: THE METAMORPHOSES OF JOHN CHEEVER | 3/27/1964 | See Source »

...cereal would put her back together again. McDowall and Whitman, tending the rose garden, make thorny work of it. And Actress Bacall, woefully miscast, exercises her steel-and-velvet charm as if she were running a rest home for demented Bunnies. Bacall's throatiest, most telling line: "I detest stupid people who think they can fake mental illness." Fortunately, nobody need submit to Shock Treatment unless he is dragged in screaming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Boredom in Bedlam | 3/13/1964 | See Source »

Queen Juliana dispatched her private secretary to warn the princess that a Spanish marriage would be deeply resented by most Dutchmen, who have always hated Spain, and detest Franco for supporting the Nazis while they occupied The Netherlands. From Madrid, the secretary reported back that the engagement was off. Irene reportedly called Prince Bernhard, her favorite parent, and said she would fly home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Netherlands: Death of a Princess | 2/14/1964 | See Source »

...Roost. Taylor seldom appears at Argus' mausoleumlike Toronto offices, much preferring to work out of the comfortable gatehouse of his 600-acre suburban Toronto estate. A rider and horse lover since college, he operates Canada's most successful racing stable on his own (says Partner Phillips: "I detest horses"), has put Canada's horse racing on its feet by reorganizing it into a few big, profitable tracks. As a private investment, he is developing Lyford Cay in Nassau into a restful roost for such multi millionaires as Henry Ford II and CBS Chairman William Paley. But Taylor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: The Man with Many Eyes | 2/8/1963 | See Source »

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