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...that contact, that meeting of minds, and almost of hearts, which seemed to have taken place four months ago is -for the moment -broken. We stand looking at each other across a great divide." Thus did Britain's Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan pronounce the epitaph of the spirit of Geneva...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GENEVA: The Great Divide | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

Adventures in the Skin Trade and Other Stories, by Dylan Thomas. A prose epitaph from the legendary poet of Laugharne, containing a fragment of a novel and 20 other tales, all as panurgent, eloquent and unpredictable as the man himself (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Aug. 8, 1955 | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

...mixed as herself; they spin poetic stories in a troubadourish vein, seek peace and unity in the heart of a whirl of fantasy. In a Farther Country fades out with Marietta and one of her wacky acquaintances revolving in a dream world to the accompaniment of a fancy Goyen epitaph: "Her body became like a long yellow stalk, going up to seed in her hair . . . The room was dark except for the flashing ... of the sign across the street that said Moving and Storage . . . [These] words . . . seemed to be the last pronouncement about human life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Seed in Her Hair | 7/25/1955 | See Source »

...Last Tycoon, which might have been his masterpiece. But when he had reached the middle of chapter six, a heart attack ended his life at 44. Almost nobody came to the bare funeral home where his body lay. But his old friend Dorothy Parker did. Her hard-boiled epitaph, too strong for last week's radio show, echoed Fitzgerald's own tag line to The Great Gatsby. Looking at the corpse, she said, "The poor son of a bitch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Biography in Sound | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

Adventures in the Skin Trade and Other Stories, by Dylan Thomas. A prose epitaph from the legendary poet of Laugharne, containing a fragment of a novel and 20 other tales, all as panurgent, eloquent and unpredictable as the man himself (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Jul. 4, 1955 | 7/4/1955 | See Source »

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