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Florida Democrat Dante Fascell, who was home campaigning, was instructed to re turn to Washington immediately; Geor gia's Iris Blitch and Pennsylvania's James Byrne were persuaded to get up from sickbeds to be on hand for the key votes. And thus, under the cudgel, the House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Putting On the Heat | 4/6/1962 | See Source »

There is some doubt that the law will be changed, however. The divorce business is bringing a lot of money into Alabama, even though the lawyers (who average $250 on an ordinary case) get most of the take. But some observers can see other advantages. After all, TV's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Customs: Alabamy Unbound | 1/5/1962 | See Source »

A SEVERED HEAD, by Iris Murdoch (248 pp.; Viking; $3.95), leaves little doubt that adultery would be even more popular than it is but for the fact that it involves a more exacting set of rules than marriage itself. Oxford Philosophy Don Iris Murdoch has written a novel about adultery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Short Notices: May 19, 1961 | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

William Hickey and Clifton James make a fine Laurel & Hardy team out of Trinculo and Stephano. Anne Fielding. Rae Allen, and Sada Thompson look pretty and sing well (particularly Miss Allen) as the goddesses Iris, Ceres, and Juno in the brief but beautiful Jonsonian masque arranged by Prospero. Lee Hoiby...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: The Tempest and Twelfth Night | 7/5/1960 | See Source »

With this paradox, made startling by the context. Director Resnais introduces the theme of his film: Hiroshima, like God, is love. It is the Calvary of the Atomic Age. It died for man's sins. It descended into hell and rose again. "[On] the fifteenth day Hiroshima was covered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Love in a Mass Grave | 5/16/1960 | See Source »

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