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...think TIME'S [March 12] observation that Olivier-Richard's cold-bloodedness fails to win him sympathy doth miss the mark. Richard's ingratiating trait is his impish wickedness, his gleeful lack of conscience; he acts less with malice than with roguish dedication, so that his audience, in delighted horror, wonders just what the old boy will contrive next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 9, 1956 | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

Nature, that framed us of four elements Warring within our breasts for regiment, Doth teach us all to have aspiring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Plays in Manhattan, Jan. 30, 1956 | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

...there is one unassailable fact about the present controversy, it is that it is nothing new. True enough, the U.S. was once perfectly willing to leave Johnny chained to the alphabet. The New England Primer taught him his ABCs through little rhymes (e.g., for R: "Rachel doth mourn/ For her first born"). Noah Webster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: THE FIRST R | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

...five days doth the Dartmouth man labor. But on the sixth and seventh he rests from his labors and it is in this weekend that he has earned his fame and spent his fortune...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dartmouth Weekday | 10/21/1955 | See Source »

...Raged, in the Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee, after Foreign Operations Administrator Harold Stassen sent word that his aides could be interviewed by subcommittee staff members only in the presence of either Stassen or his lawyers. Cried North Carolina's Democratic Senator Sam Ervin-of Stassen: "What meat doth this Caesar eat, that he hath grown so great?'' Growled Joe McCarthy: Stassen's stand was "the most unheard of thing I have seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Ratification | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

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