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...afternoon's incongruities began with Teller's entrance into the room full of chatting, genial conventioneers-flanked by six bodyguards, apparently in response to threats of violence against him. But what followed was anything but violent. When he rose to speak, two S. E. S. P. A. men simply mounted the far end of the stage and stood silently, holding up the first of a series of placards introducing "The War Criminal: A Short Play by Edward Teller...

Author: By Deborah Shapley, | Title: The Scientist as Doctor Strangelove | 2/19/1971 | See Source »

...take in Boston and the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. There are more ethnic novels around these days-with the Jews, the Irish and the Italians fighting it out for the Nostalgia Cup as they once vied for control of city councils. The Governor, the latest Irish entry, is a genial updating of the late Edwin O'Connor's Boston. All it lacks is O'Connor's stereopticon skill at making two-dimensional characters seem solid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Stirring Pot | 2/15/1971 | See Source »

...Lady Bracknell She also lends her dowager tones to Schubert lieder and such trifles as Nevermore from Noel Coward's Conversation Piece. Her brother Sicnarf, having lived in America, has acquired a Southern accent as well as a rowdy taste in music and poetry; he does the genial turns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Mini Music Hall | 1/4/1971 | See Source »

...away party for a Viet Nam-bound soldier are filled with a sense of quiet poetry that might have pleased Sherwood Anderson. In the cast are Tisa Farrow, Mia's preternaturally sensual younger sister, and (as Homer) a robust young actor named Don Scardino, who is the most genial and talented young leading man to appear since Beau Bridges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Stocking Stuffers | 12/28/1970 | See Source »

Walinsky is running hard against New York State Attorney General Louis Lefkowitz, 66, an incumbent for 14 years and a genial New York Republican institution. The Walinsky campaign is energetic, relevant and heavily financed. He is spending between $400,000 and $500,000, roughly three times his opponent's budget. He spends himself just as lavishly. On one recent campaign day, he made half a dozen stops in the New York City area, flew into Buffalo at midnight and held a three-hour meeting before going to sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Chasing a Future | 10/19/1970 | See Source »

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