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The play is a kind of twilit allegory, a heroic drama that beats its swords into similes a work whose verbal abundance begets theatrical poverty. Brief scenes excepted, the play is most interesting where philosophically it is least so: in the first act where the situation is forged, where there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Mar. 7, 1955 | 3/7/1955 | See Source »

The Fall of France, Spears's sequel to his Prelude to Dunkirk, tells the story of June 1940, and is packed with as many characters as a grand opera. But the single figure of heroic stature and stentorian voice is that of Churchill. It is a measure of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: End of a Nation | 3/7/1955 | See Source »

Moreover, the time factor-the persistence of radioactivity-adds a new dimension to warfare. It adds a denial factor, for many homes are denied the dispossessed. Many factories, even though intact, would be "out of commission." That the U.S. industrial colossus could be so paralyzed is incredible but, unfortunately, true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judgments & Prophecies, Feb. 21, 1955 | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

Gores said that the new plan would bring a much-needed integration of college and secondary school policy "in the New England liberal arts tradition. It will put the hiring of teachers in an utterly new dimension because the employer will be seeking out the prospective employee," he added.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Educators Say New Plan Will Set National Example | 2/19/1955 | See Source »

But for most viewers the 23 Braque drawings will have an eerie dimension. Braque attempts to break the barriers of a dead language and recapture the almost childlike age when giants. Titans and nymphs shared the world with mortals and Olympian gods. The attempt, in the words of one French...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Helmets with Weather Vanes | 1/17/1955 | See Source »

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