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...picture says no such horrid, controversial thing. According to one billboard, the hero (Montgomery Clift) has a relatively simple problem: "Will he make a good husband?" Though his heart bleeds for humanity, the wound is healed with a kiss, and in the end it looks as though he gets married and lives happily ever after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 23, 1959 | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

...would only be chatting on the transatlantic phone. With the stage thus set, the old and young couples were brought together before the microphones. Seeing her mother, daughter Tine Mak, who is pregnant, promptly collapsed. Seeing her son-in-law, Margaretha Muylaert cried: "I think he's a horrid fellow." Son-in-law Adriaan Mak, a headwaiter, turned to a KLM representative and said angrily: "I told you this would happen, but you wouldn't listen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: This Is Whose Life? | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

...Arizona businessmen the line on the modern novel: "There have been too many in which some young man is looking forward, backward or sideways in anger. Or in which some Southern youth is being chased through the magnolia bushes by his aunt. She catches him on page 28 with horrid results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 9, 1958 | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

...minutes telling about it (and thus set a new record for the longest ad lib broadcast ever made on the network). Skillfully cutting in films and slides on cue, the Prince rambled on about anything and everything. "I'm not surprised it was forbidden," he said, describing the horrid taste of a vegetable believed by those in the Seychelles Islands to be the original forbidden fruit of Eden. "They must have had a good stiff neck in the morning," he reflected on some New Guinea native dancers. And for one indifferent shot of a penguin rookery, he apologized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Queen's Husband | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

...this, academicians replied that the literature which was being produced led to "disobedience to parents -- debaucheries -- prostitutions -- broken promises -- perjuries -- adulteries -- and other crimes too horrid to name ... caused by learning in and inculcated from this abominable library of hell...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: Study of U.S. Literature Comes of Age | 10/18/1957 | See Source »

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