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Most friends disgust us with friendship and most pious creatures with piety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: LA ROCHEFOUCAULD: SAGE & CYNIC | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

...premises he gets a fluke chance to catch the main man with cash in hand. And so on until well after midnight, when the chief inspector arrives home at last -coat torn, temper frayed, and bloody well ready for a little appreciation. "George!" his wife hisses with disgust. "You've been drinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 8, 1959 | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

...pair of light-hitting journeymen infielders who had been considered all but washed up. Third Baseman Woody Held, 27, a .204 hitter with only seven home runs last year, hit five homers, knocked in ten runs in his first eight games. Shortstop George Strickland, 33, who actually retired in disgust a year ago and returned only at the urging of Cleveland top brass, was hitting a whopping .360 in stark contrast to his lifetime average of .223. Says Strickland: "I don't want to analyze what I'm doing right. I'm just happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Spring Heroes | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

...soul is as spotless as her nylon underwear is sure to be. Carl Dickson, a young ad man with thoughts that seem old for his age, has decided to marry Joan because, at 26, he is already suffering from the roué's punishment: boredom with compulsive conquest, disgust with predictable passion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: So Young, So False | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

...again pierces his story with small but sharply accurate insights-how a man feels when he pointlessly watches a girl on the street, the horribly impersonal service in a funeral parlor almost too antiseptic to admit the image, "dust to dust." Sex itself ends in the kind of disgust that makes both the scene and the act seem like an aspect of earned punishment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: So Young, So False | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

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