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...swallow as a Vaseline sandwich, suddenly pulls on a fright wig and does a brilliant bughouse turn as a batty old bag who reads tea leaves and such. And Villain Bolger is granted at least one grand line. "Come!" he calls sepulchrally to his comic accomplices. "Let us lurk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nursery Crhymes | 12/15/1961 | See Source »

...would be beggarly to call what Scofield does a performance; it is an incarnation. Under the seamed cliff of his forehead, his eyes lurk in shadowed caves, agile, probing, grave, blithesome and wise. Scofield's art conceals art and achieves a translucency of spirit that summons up noble half-forgotten phrases like "sweet reason" and "gentle honor." In a superb cast, George Rose is comic as a ubiquitous Common Man, and Keith Baxter makes the young Henry VIII an uncut diamond of the Renaissance new learning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Duty v. Conscience | 12/1/1961 | See Source »

Brandsiftung, vermutlich? [Arson, presumably?] Evidently, fear and chaos lurk behind the bland prosperity...

Author: By Anthony Hiss, | Title: The Germans | 11/15/1961 | See Source »

...ready, willing and able to face up to the danger that threatens at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate. But in the mind of John Kennedy, the nation is less prepared for the crises that lurk half-hidden in Africa, South America and Asia. This week John Kennedy would go before Congress and the nation (in a televised speech from the White House) to announce the first stages of the U.S. response to the latest Soviet threats. The emergency measures, while geared to the specific danger of a Berlin conflict, are the start of a long-range, permanent toughening of national...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: The Speech | 7/28/1961 | See Source »

...nations. He may be as urbane as the 18th century philosophers who prepared the way for the guillotine and the tumbrels. Or, in one man's words: He may wear a Brooks Brothers suit and carry a ballpoint pen ... In fact, even beneath the academic gown there may lurk a child of the wilderness, untutored in the high tradition of civility, who goes busily and happily about his work a domesticated and law-abiding man engaged in the construction of a philosophy to put an end to all philosophy This is perennially the work of the barbarian to undermine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: City of God & Man | 12/12/1960 | See Source »

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