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...Farrand), a blonde minibombshell charitably described by her husband as a nymphomaniac. When she makes her usual plaint about Dr. Prentice's lack of expertise as a lover, the doctor replies a trifle uncharitably: "You were born with your legs apart. They'll send you to the grave in a Y-shaped coffin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Laughtime in Bedlam | 5/18/1970 | See Source »

After ten minutes, Brooke regained the floor. "You're well aware," he said, "that I share your grave concern and frustration. I know your experience in the executive. Many of us in the Senate have been meeting regularly to try to reverse the President's policy. I was frankly shocked. I could scarcely believe my cars. Why, Nixon had disarmed the students. They'd packed up here just last week and gone home." He was referring to the closing of the New Mobe office. This was the first of many times that day the professors would be treated as representatives...

Author: By Mike Kinsley, | Title: 12 Professors Visit Capitol Hill Along Their Road to Damascus | 5/15/1970 | See Source »

MacGowran's cunning anthology of Beckett is at root the celebration of man's fear and lust for death. "Astride of a grave and a difficult birth. Down in the hole, lingeringlv. The gravedigger puts on the forceps," or, "Oh I know I too shall cease and be as when I was not yet . . . Often now my murmur falters and dies and I weep for happiness as I go along and for love of this old earth that has carried me so long and whose uncomplainingness will soon be mine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: When Friends Collaborate | 5/11/1970 | See Source »

Governor Ronald Reagan of California yesterday afternoon asked all seven state universities to close until Sunday, so that students could consider "the grave sequence of current events." Ohio Governor James A. Rhodes said that all Ohio universities experiencing unrest should be shut down immediately...

Author: By Marion E. Mccollom, | Title: 324 Universities Strike Nationally; Protests Expand | 5/7/1970 | See Source »

...range of subjects, taking a tough but carefully qualified attitude. Nations fighting against imperialism, he said, will always have in Russia "a reliable and true friend." Enlightened circles in "bourgeois countries," on the other hand, can count on "a partner prepared to promote mutually beneficial cooperation." He admitted to grave shortcomings in the economy but vowed: "We shall work steadfastly to set our mistakes right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Soviet Union: Leadership At the Crossroads | 5/4/1970 | See Source »

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