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...schoolboy and a beautiful but dumb stripteaser on a Riviera whirl-all financed with stolen money. Before the boy winds up in the pen, the judge asks: "Is it Mademoiselle Sagan who has put all these ideas in your head?" Answers the accused: "I don't want to disappoint Mile. Sagan, but I think the idea was in the air long ago and will outlive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sex & Salvation | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

From 5,000 "Active Young Builders of Socialism" meeting last week in Peking, the Central Committee of Red China's Communist Party got a love note: "Our generation of youth will always rally closely around the party and go wherever the party tells us ... We will never disappoint the party in its earnest hopes and will strive to accelerate the building of socialism and to realize mankind's noblest ideal-Communism-in our generation and by our own hands." To millions of hand-blistered Chinese students, the last phrase must ring with ironic accuracy. For much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: School & Steel | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

...After a girl handed him a broom "to sweep them all out in 1960." photographers gleefully demanded a flurry of retakes. Clutching the broom, an embarrassed Stevenson advanced grimly on a squad of girls bearing "Don't say no, Adlai" placards, mumbled helplessly: "I'm sorry to disappoint you-I'll try to find another candidate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 13, 1958 | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

...staccato sociology, couch jargon or four-letter words, Lolita is the more shocking because it is both intensely lyrical and wildly funny. It is (in many of its pages) a Medusa's head with trick paper snakes, and its punning comedy as well as its dark poetics will disappoint the smut hounds-a solemn breed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: To the End of Night | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

...legitimate theater since he entered the White House. That was in New York to pick up his wife after My Fair Lady. He saw the musical's last 15 minutes. But last night at the White House some of the top hits' leading players were willing to disappoint their paying customers to perform before a President of the United States who has not, as yet, deigned to cross a street to see their fellow Equity players...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Weeper for the Losers | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

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