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...telegram...with its necessary knock and its flagrant yellow, and its curt phrase of necessary English--I know not which sense was more offended--hit me in the wing and I fell a heaped corpse upon the earth. The sense, if that can be said to have sense which has so little sound, was to discredit the respectability of a house in Fitzroy Square. And there you see me in the mud. Shall I argue that a mind that knows not Gibbon knows not mortality? or shall I affirm that bad English and respectability are twin sisters, dear...

Author: By John Sedgwick, | Title: A Painter at Her Easel | 4/13/1976 | See Source »

...offices in 20 cities and towns, campaigned in the state for a year, and won strong union backing. He is also supported by six of the state's seven Democratic U.S. Representatives. But Udall's own polls show him running behind Carter, and a loss might well knock him out of the race. As a result, Udall changed his strategy last week to devote more time and money to Wisconsin and less to New York. He has also presented himself unabashedly as a kind of surrogate for Humphrey, who for years was considered the third Senator from Wisconsin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: On to Wisconsin and New York | 4/5/1976 | See Source »

Seltzer, 43, is playing a starring role in Knock Knock, Jules Feiffer's successful new play about two middle-aged men living in seclusion (TIME, Feb. 2). Last week Seltzer was nominated for a Tony award for his role as Cohn, a fussy, intellectual eccentric. When Seltzer read his part to some of his students before the play opened, they thought he was merely being himself. Says Katherine Mendeloff, a senior English major from Baltimore: "It's so Seltzerian. Feiffer must have written it especially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Scholarly Thespian | 4/5/1976 | See Source »

...students hope that Knock Knock has a long run, but they miss having Seltzer at Princeton full time. For one thing, the bachelor professor now has little time to uphold his reputation as the best chef on campus. He has been forced to cut back on the Indian and Szechuan Chinese dinners he cooks for his students. But what students miss most are his classroom dramatics. Says Sophomore Chad Restum: "Dan can do a reading involving three characters and never make a mistake with the different voices." The day when Seltzer is back performing at the podium may come none...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Scholarly Thespian | 4/5/1976 | See Source »

...most agile U.S. fighter. Israel's other combat planes (principally F-4 Phantoms and the Israeli-designed Kfirs) are being outfitted with the latest electronic gadgets to aid in night flying missions and foil antiaircraft missiles. The Shrike air-to-surface missile has been deployed to knock out the radars on which antiaircraft batteries depend. In addition, Israel is receiving "smart" bombs, which can be guided onto targets. Still on Jerusalem's shopping list are American RPVs (remotely piloted vehicles), which can counter the Arabs' Russian-built SAMs by drawing antiaircraft fire. To bolster its ground forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMAMENTS: A Deadly Race That No One Can Win | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

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