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...things run counter to the rest: Jo Mielziner's ingenious, bright sets, and 19-year-old French-Chinese Actress Nuyen's fetching personality. A more slushy than sexy blend of sex and slush, Suzie Wong should linger long on Broadway, just the thing for matinee ladies munching tear-splashed caramels or for gentlemen with a slightly adolescent fondness for tarts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Oct. 27, 1958 | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

...value and results of the President's Middle East speech could not be measured solely by General Assembly resolutions. Besides proposing a Middle East program, the President set forth, in terms whose echoes should linger long, the U.S. stand in the world: firmness in the face of "ballistic blackmail," steadfast opposition to aggression, loyalty to the U.N. Charter, friendship toward other nations and readiness to help them achieve their real and legitimate aspirations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Points for Peace | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

...jaunty, paunchy Dictator Franco review Moorish. Spanish, German and Italian troops on victorious parade in 1939 and, an instant later hearing Narrator Walter Cronkite remind viewers that U.S. Sherman tanks roll down these same avenues today. As Scriptwriter Hughes explained: "Victory is a fragile thing, and history does not linger long in the 20th century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

...unique way of looking at reality, unblinking and with the lens-precision of the movies he loved, yet gentle-the manner of a tender realist. His description of how the boy and his sister are led to see their father's corpse in the coffin will linger with readers for a long time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tender Realist | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

...stated that the majority of the student body wanted to continue the series and that the bad taste of a small minority was responsible for the whole affair. "Princeton and Harvard," it ended, "are too much a part of the best traditions of American education to allow themselves to linger in what is at best a petty feudalism...

Author: By James W. B. benkard, | Title: Teapot Tempest: '26 Tiger-Crimson Game | 11/9/1957 | See Source »

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