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CONGRATULATIONS ON TIME'S FEB. 27 ASTUTE AND KEENLY OBSERVANT ARTICLE ON BILL HOLDEN. BUT HE IS STILL AN ENIGMA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 12, 1956 | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

Lady Macbeth, too, remains something of an enigma. Barbara Forester plays the part with a good deal of vigor and violence, both of which are appropriate in spots, but not throughout. Her malice and ambition could be more impressive if they were less blatant, and her occasional shrewishness obscures understanding of her subtly poisonous influence upon her husband...

Author: By John A. Pork, | Title: Macbeth | 11/30/1955 | See Source »

...scientist to protest that if he cut the Bump of Amativeness right out of a pigeon's brain, it went on billing and cooing and laying eggs just the same. Phrenology offered an easy clue to the enigma of human life. In the U.S., furthermore, phrenology took on a democratic tinge. Everyone had a head, and everyone with the aid of a little chart could understand what was going on in it. It was optimistic-the "good" organs, by exercise, would increase in size. Two men with heads as massive as Beethoven's took the whole thing over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Couch & the Calipers | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

Cure for the Enigma. The head-reading business began (the start seems somehow familiar) with a Vienna doctor who had some strange and original notions about the nature of man. He was Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828), who made the simple discovery that "character was the brain." From this it was a simple step to decide that if one knew what went on on the surface of the brain, one would know what went on underneath. Before long there was a little chart dividing the brain into 37 faculties, each doing its little bit to help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Couch & the Calipers | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

...recluse who keeps his Paris address a secret, Rouault rarely offers clues to the meanings of his paintings, probably because, as he once wrote of his famous painting Three Judges: "What had seemed to me so simple pictorially has been thought a curious enigma." Guessing who the old king might be, a former director of the Carnegie Institute says: "He may be a David, a Herod or a Sennacherib, for he is an epitome of Oriental magnificence." Said another critic: "It is as though the whole sorrow of mankind were concentrated on the old king." Whoever the king, he speaks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: PUBLIC FAVORITE | 3/7/1955 | See Source »

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