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Since the characters remain incomprehensible, the incidents in which they are involved and upon which they comment necessarily fail to have much coherence. Briefly, the plot deals with a pair of Brazilian promoters who hatch a scheme to build a dam in the hinterlands of the upper Amazon. In order...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: The Bandeirantes | 2/16/1956 | See Source »

In hiring a full professor, Mather can offer him no more than $6,180. At the end of twelve years, the professor automatically reaches a final salary of $7,680, but the Division of Personnel and Standardization bars merit raises. When the professor dies, the division is apt to downgrade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Straitjacket | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

Looking at The Ponder Heart is much like watching the village idiot for a couple of hours--the experience can be amusing, but it leaves a strangely bitter after-taste. The pitiful "hero" of the play, Uncle Daniel Ponder, is in fact a sort of village idiot of a small...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: The Ponder Heart | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

Umberto D. A man walks the plank of old age, and the Italian realist cinema dies with a gentle curse: Vittorio De Sica's most careful film (TIME, Dec. 12).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Feb. 6, 1956 | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

After two years of army duty, Alexis comes home to London and finds Rose ensconced as his uncle's mistress. Alexis coaxes her into a bedroom reunion, but at this point and over the next decade, the plot begins subdividing like an amoeba: 1) Rose takes up with a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Neo-Pagan | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

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