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Yet the play-however seriously meant or in places skillfully contrived-comes off largely a parlor game. The characters get to know themselves better than the audience knows the characters; the play means too much to mean-as a felt experience-much of anything at all. The meaning is not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Feb. 22, 1954 | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

"I knew the virtues of democracy when I came," he says. "But the opportunity-that was the real illumination." He saved $500 in three months, opened a little book business of his own. It prospered. He got married, became the father of a baby son. But the FBI never stopped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: The Masquerader | 3/23/1953 | See Source »

With this English-made historical melodrama, the Brattle presents two French shorts. The first, called Zanzabelle, is the work of an old French puppeteer, who has a remarkable ability to place human faces on his dolls and an equally wonderful talent for amusing situation. The other short, Images Medievales, reproduces...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: Queen of Spades | 2/25/1953 | See Source »

Tablets of Eternity. The historian's function, under this definition, is to do more than study facts for their own sake, for "universal history is a continuous development; it is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul." A slavish objectivity subverts the purpose of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Hanging Judge | 12/15/1952 | See Source »

Martin Merriedew, the hero of Mary Borden's*latest novel, You, the Jury, was a singular child. He had some inner illumination that drew people's attention to him. He spoke sometimes to his playmates about God; and sometimes he broke off play and left them, saying, "I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vision & Martyrdom | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

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