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As has been amply proved in the past, Miss Welch's acting ability is greatly overshadowed by her endowments. Consequently, her thrashings and grimacings while being assaulted assume an air of piquant comedy. Nothing will do after being so shamed but for Miss Welch to ride out for revenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Mae West | 6/26/1972 | See Source »

The man in search of an ideal could at least begin, Campbell thinks, by searching through the myths of antiquity, religion and modern literature. For the elite who can read and understand them, T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, Thomas Mann, among modern writers and poets, and Pablo Picasso and Paul Klee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Need for New Myths | 1/17/1972 | See Source »

The play is apprentice work of the Bard's, but it does contain premonitory inklings of Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night. However, the theme of young love is scarcely served by this dryly mocking adaptation. The musical resembles an animated jukebox and comes alive only in one sultry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Cultural Vandalism | 12/13/1971 | See Source »

It is hard to stop picking out the raisins from this amiable book. A last one: Singer, distracted, finds himself standing at the door of his stepdaughter's room. She is a messy teenager, scornful, baffling. She asks, after a time, what he is doing. "Taking stock," he flips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Socks Washed in Tears | 11/29/1971 | See Source »

A Model Mother. Most females were more interested in children than they were in males. Jane found that chimp mothers who made their babies get out on their own at an early age wound up with clinging, frightened children. Steady, loving and even indulgent mothers, in contrast, generally had happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Hairy Mirror | 11/8/1971 | See Source »

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