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BERLIN, by Theodor Plievier. The end of Hitler, Berlin and Germany, seen in a flaming novel that has the hallucinatory quality of a firelit death dance. The last book of a trilogy (Stalingrad and Moscow were the other two) that, collectively, tops the fiction of World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: The YEAR'S BEST | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

Last week, sponsored by Trans World Airlines, Mr. and Mrs. Blandings (Sun. 5:30 p.m., NBC) reached radio, which is even more frightened and fascinated by sex than the movies are. Listeners were asked to visualize a firelit room, shaded lamps, a deep-cushioned sofa and a shakerful of Martinis. Against a background of Tchaikovsky, they eavesdropped on Cary Grant and Actress Betsy Drake (his wife both in radio and life), reminiscing about their courtship and honeymoon. Producer-Writer Nat Wolff (who is getting "dialogue assists" from Actress Drake) wants to picture "a very attractive couple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Very Attractive Couple | 2/5/1951 | See Source »

...hypnotic Chorus resumes; the camera pans to the English camp and strolls, as if it were the wandering King himself, among the firelit tents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Masterpiece | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

...golden rooms were the firelit caves of men in the vast darkness of prehistoric night. When Harg discovered that by rubbing two sticks together he could make fire, he rose to his feet, trembling, and slipped away into the dusk. He thought: "You are the only one in the world who can make fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Prehistoric Man | 1/15/1945 | See Source »

...live first in England and then in the Eternal City. From time to time Santayana's books appeared, modulated and civilized, never quite sustaining the masterpiece proportions of their best contributions, never lacking passages of extraordinary penetration, and always written in prose as dusky and subdued as the firelit Harvard study he describes. The first of his books to reach a big U.S. audience was The Last Puritan in 1936. It was far less important and far more difficult than Persons and Places. For the complexities of Latin American politics and cultural relations have cleared enough to show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Mind Thinks Back | 1/10/1944 | See Source »

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