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...Leningrad Technological Institute they indulged in "brash and demagogic remarks" that showed "an effort to ignore completely the undoubted gains of Soviet culture." In Moscow, where university students openly admitted listening to Western radio broadcasts, the youthful audience at a Lenin Library lecture walked out in disgust at the speaker's lame explanations of events in Hungary. Simultaneously, there appeared in the capital anonymous mimeographed "newspapers," which were obviously written by intellectuals, and which charged that the Soviet government was not telling the people the truth about Hungary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Ferment & Failure | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

...vicious Achilles, a sniveling Thersites, a driveling Nestor. Shakespeare's narrative recounts the harlotry of love and the homosexuality of friendship, shows war grotesquely fumbled and honor traduced. In the violence of its mood and the slackness of its method, in its surface disillusionment and its underlying disgust, in its fierce, fanged bite-yet its biting off more than it can chew-Troilus and Cressida resembles a little those harsh Huxleyan "sophisticated novels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Play in Manhattan, Jan. 7, 1957 | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

...upon carnal suggestiveness."-The statement is true enough, but there is room for doubt that the carnality of the picture makes it unfit to be seen. The film was clearly intended-both by Playwright Tennessee Williams, who wrote the script, and by Elia Kazan, who directed it-to arouse disgust; not disgust with the film itself, but with the kind of people and the way of life it describes. To the extent that it succeeds, Baby Doll is an almost puritanically moral, work of art. And yet, as the script continues, long after it has made its moral point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Dec. 24, 1956 | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

...within minutes of the attack on the Rev. Paul Turner, a remarkable thing happened: the good people of Clinton, Tenn. began trooping to the polls in record numbers. Recording their disgust, they swamped all segregationist-backed candidates by margins of nearly three to one, elected as mayor coolheaded, fairminded Judge T. Lawrence Seeber, 58. This, far more than the ugly face of the mob, was the true Clinton. In it lay hope for the South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: The True Face of Clinton | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

...university students stormed the Russian embassy in Brussels. Great Britain. Crowds marched in London streets wearing armbands of mourning. The Sadler's Wells Ballet Company called off its scheduled trip to Moscow. "Gabriel," chief political cartoonist of the London Daily Worker for 20 years, quit in disgust. The Oxford University Communist Club met and voted unanimously to dissolve. At a diplomatic party at Buckingham Palace, the Queen nodded stiffly to Soviet Ambassador Jacob Malik and moved on without a word, followed by an equally rigid and unsmiling Queen Mother and Princess Margaret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WORLD CRISIS: The Mark of Cain | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

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