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Someone offstage is pronounced guilty of a series of unintelligible crimes, and in marches the prisoner, to be thrust into his cell by a buffoon of a turnkey with baggy pantaloons and clown makeup. Suddenly the two of them are waltzing around the cell together to appropriate music. The whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Off Broadway: The Execution Cure | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

The war, of course, changed all that. In the early stages, it showed us that the liberal ideology and leadership in which we had trusted was capable of monstrous and stupid acts. The lines hardened with our growing desperation: by the time of the mass marches in New York and...

Author: By David I. Bruck, | Title: The Agony of the American Left | 3/25/1969 | See Source »

Still, the connoisseur can find a few true American eccentrics-people who consistently follow their own' seemingly exotic standards. Eugene McCarthy, who now disappoints many of his former disciples, marches to his own one-man band. So, for that matter, does Harold Stassen. While Timothy Leary preaches drug salvation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE SAD STATE OF ECCENTRICITY | 3/14/1969 | See Source »

Duplicate Martyrdom. What caused that view to change was a feeling, even in the government, that Palach's death had to be taken as a serious political protest. While President Ludvik Svoboda pleaded against the repetition of "this horrible deed," he declared sympathetically on television that, "as a soldier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A MESSAGE IN FIRE | 1/31/1969 | See Source »

The streets of Monrovia, the capital, were jammed with parked cars that spilled over into the alleys. Inside the Centennial Ballroom, a babel of people in long white Moslem robes and colored bubus (tribal gowns) mingled with those in formal tie and tails wearing rows of medals. Guided by Tubman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Liberia: Uncle Shad's Jubilee | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

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