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Martin Quarrier is a fundamentalist missionary who enters the jungle to save the Niaruna. He is a kindly but conventional Christian who truly believes that the Indians will burn in brimstone if he does not baptize them. He pays for his stupidity to the uttermost farthing. The Niaruna indignantly reject...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Amazonian Advent | 11/19/1965 | See Source »

First the tympani's unbelievable crescendo at the start of the March to the Scaffold, then the mock-serious strings, followed by all that nonsense for the bassoons. Finally the inevitable tuba, and a great off-beat joke by the percussion utensils. The Dream of a Witches' Sabbath flaunted its...

Author: By Jeffrey B. Cobb, | Title: Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra | 11/15/1965 | See Source »

He hesitates before the glass door of the downtown building, then pushes through and climbs a narrow staircase to the second floor. There he pauses again before the well-advertised insignia on another door, squares his shoulders and steps into a brightly lit room filled with the murmur of Muzak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Credit: Polonius Reversed | 11/12/1965 | See Source »

At about the same time, a pathologist named Langreuter scooped the brains out of corpses and, throwing a strong light down the throat from above, made definitive studies of strangulation. In 1900, Germany's Paul Uhlenhuth solved a problem that had vexed the authorities since the days of Joseph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Keeping Up with the Bones | 11/12/1965 | See Source »

Matthew Stanton is an Irish immigrant to the Brooklyn of the 1890's. For three years he lives with the older, well-to-do Aggie Hogan. Believing that she has been unfaithful to him with Edward Quinn, Brooklyn's mayor, Stanton flees to England where he marries an Irish girl...

Author: By George H. Rosen, | Title: Hogan's Goat | 11/4/1965 | See Source »

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