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Disneyland has always represented something more than a conventional amusement park. The intricacy of the animation of the robots, the college of Disney versions of basic American folklore, the reduction and recreation of American mythology in a world designed basically for preadolescents are all disturbing indications that Disneyland is too...

Author: By Laurence Bergreen, | Title: Disney's Lands: Is the Shyster in the Back Room of Illusion? | 1/12/1972 | See Source »

The same tale of jealousy, love betrayed and suffering as Hollywood's 1939 heartthrobber The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, the new Devereux was even more of a showpiece for Beverly Sills than the film was for Bette Davis. Absent from the New York stage for more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Making Love to the Public | 10/26/1970 | See Source »

"Under Massachusetts laws," the fine print reads, "this ticket is a revocable license. If sold or offered for sale at a premium it becomes void." During most of the year, this warning is about as relevant as the Nineteenth Amendment. As the Yale game approaches, ticket scalping becomes hysteric, and...

Author: By Linda J. Greenhouse, | Title: Yale Game Seating Overflows End Zone; Ticket Scarcity is Boon to Scalpers | 11/18/1966 | See Source »

Perhaps Christina Stead's latest book should not be reviewed, but exorcised. It purports to be a novel of British working-class life, but its overt socialist propaganda and its covert hints of dark doings in sex and some sort of spiritualism make it the queerest mixture of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poor Nellie | 9/23/1966 | See Source »

Furthermore, Dr. Davison confirms the diagnosis of other historians that Mary suffered from an acutely active gastric ulcer. He also concludes that in terms of modern psychiatry she was a medically certifiable hysteric. He blames her neurosis on her troubled childhood in the first instance, and unusual height. As a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Perennial Mystery | 11/26/1965 | See Source »

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