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The script calls for dusk at this point, and Ben Edwards provides splendidly perceptible and atmospheric gloom to emphasize the foreboding mood. But the almost surreal quality of this passage, its combination of mystery and sublimity that survives the most dreary Shavian bathos when read with half an ear and...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Heartbreak House | 10/1/1959 | See Source »

The only exception was goalie Harry Pratt, who was far below his usual performance and ordinarily would have handled most of the four Yale goals scored from beyond 35 feet. Neither Pratt nor the varsity was ready for the wild attack launched by the Elis from the opening faceoff. Left...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Yale Downs Swimmers; Elis Tie Sextet, 5-5 | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

The plot hinges on whether Miles will be appointed head of a new laboratory set up to study his own specialty. It is a Trollopian situation, as scientific panjandrums play politics with the skill and gusto of the Barchester Cathedral chapter contending over a vacant canonry. But the real story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sin Among the Scientists | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

THE DENVER POST: OUR view is that millions of people were shaken by Republican doubletalk over the budget two years ago, the U.S. lag in missiles and the race for outer space, the incredible confusion over civil defense, the Sherman Adams case, Little Rock, and the antics of John Foster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDGEMENTS & PROPHECIES: THE ELECTION: A POST-MORTEM | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

In Jackson, Miss. House Speaker Sam Rayburn, a Texas Democrat who had spent years trying to make the Democratic tent big enough for both North and South, refused to discuss segregation ("I don't think it would be helpful to talk about it"), attempted to turn the anger of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: War Between the States | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

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