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...Williams is a regional play wright in a far subtler sense than that of merely creating bizarre Southern characters. Until recent decades, the mind of the South had been haunted by the disastrous defeat of the Civil War and by memories of pre-bellum graciousness, leisure and glory. The hab it of viewing human beings as wound ed by life, just as the South was wounded by history, permeates Williams' plays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays: The Seven Descents of Myrtle | 4/5/1968 | See Source »

After a long Fourth of July weekend on the Texas ranch, Lady Bird Johnson was rarin' to return to Washington and dive back into the elaborate prepara tions for Luci's Aug. 6 wedding. But Lyndon Johnson was in his natural hab itat and, in the absence of any pressing business, had no intention whatever of rushing away. Said he to Lady Bird: "The Cabinet's gone. Congress is home. You and I and [Bill] Moyers would be there all alone." So the visit was ex tended for the rest of the week - a week in which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Psephologist at Play | 7/15/1966 | See Source »

...full employment and extensive welfare benefits. Dr. Gunther Nenning, editor of Austria's intellectual weekly Forum, reports that today the proletariat "is taking on characteristics of the bourgeoisie." It is common to hear such refined expressions as "küss' die Hand," (I kiss your hand), or "hab' die Ehre" (I have the honor) for salutations in butcher shops. The Communist vote has dropped to virtually nothing, while the Socialist Party, which claims 76 seats in the National Assembly, has helped govern the country for 20 years in a remarkably stable coalition with the 81-seat conservative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Austria: The Disneyland of Europe | 5/21/1965 | See Source »

...really you should not hab ought to said that Beatle fiends could not understamp this bit of writty, becorpse we do frum the butter of our harps. We hab not began to talk like good owld Roger and Anne yet, buck we do lick to make writty as that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 8, 1964 | 5/8/1964 | See Source »

...nein!" ("Shall I wake him? Ah no"), repeated three times, was first coy, then a bit reproachful, and finally just the merest sigh of content. The Wolf group was lengthened by two encores, which Miss Schwarzkopf announced and (bless her!) translated: an exultant Ich hab' in Penna (a catalogue of lovers: one each in Penna, Maremma, Ancona, Viterbo, Casentino, and Magione; four in La Fratta, "und zehn in Castiglione," and a magnicently dramatic performance of the great Mignon ("Kennst du das land...

Author: By Kenneth A. Bleeth, | Title: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf | 4/20/1962 | See Source »

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