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As played by Rod Taylor, John Cassidy is a fountainhead of wild Irish charm, a two-fisted brawler whose pursuit of the arts looks rather like typing practice. Now and then, between barroom fights and bedroom bouts, he taps out a masterpiece or two for the Abbey Theatre. But if...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pugnacious Playwright | 4/2/1965 | See Source »

The magazine's lead article, "Free Student News," is a potpoun of student gripes from colleges all over the country. A teacher at Adelphi University in Garden City, N.Y., who traveled to Cuba last summer, has been fired by the "rich, conformist businessmen on its board of trustees." The New...

Author: By Parker Donham, | Title: The Free Student | 2/25/1965 | See Source »

Cummings asks his audience to cast off cherished preconception so that they can feel the world with his own sardonic intellect and agile senses. "Whenever a stuffed platitude hits you in the exaggerated emphalos," Cummings counsels, "respond with a three-fisted aphorism to the precise casazza." If that advice does...

Author: By E.e. Leach, | Title: Him | 12/5/1964 | See Source »

Now he will have to live for it in jail. After the sentencing, a crowd held in check by police dogs and armed cops gathered outside the Palace of Justice to watch the prisoners being led away. Two Black Marias purred through the square, then accelerated swiftly toward Pretoria Central...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: Avoiding Martyrdom | 6/19/1964 | See Source »

Died. William Joseph Green Jr., 53, longtime (since 1948) Democratic Representative from Pennsylvania's Fifth District, iron-fisted boss of Philadelphia's Democratic machine, who overturned 68 years of Republican rule in Philadelphia in the 1951 mayoralty election, delivered a city majority for Kennedy in 1960, helped elect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 3, 1964 | 1/3/1964 | See Source »

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