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A Fistful of Dollars. Once in a great while a western comes along that breaks new ground and becomes a classic of the genre. Stagecoach was one. So was High Noon. This year A Fistful of Dollars is the feature that dares to be different. It may well be the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Daring to Be Different | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

Made overseas by an Italian director (Sergio Leone), based loosely on the Japanese film Yojimbo, and featuring a multilingual cast, Fistful should have been a loser from the word avanti.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Daring to Be Different | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

Decisive End. "If Alkan had to perform his works in public, I'm sure he would have been kinder to himself," says Lewenthal, whose impulsive, steel-wristed style of playing is just right for Alkan. For him the concert stage is an arena, his mission "to slay the black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Composers: Curiosity Piece | 2/4/1966 | See Source »

Last Spring, eight tutors challenged the History Department's fabled conservatism with a fistful of reform proposals, including a system of senior seminars as alternatives to the thesis. The seminars alone were enough to make the reforms revolutionary; at Harvard, writing a thesis for honors is usually thought of as...

Author: By Lee H. Simowitz, | Title: History Thesis Reform Flickers and Dies | 1/10/1966 | See Source »

The murderers swim forever in a river of blood; the flatterers wallow in human excrement; the sowers of discord are split up the middle and stagger through eternity with their entrails hanging out. From time to time, with the brutality characteristic of his age, Dante personally assists their torment -he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Man for the Ages | 7/9/1965 | See Source »

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