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The Persecution and Assassination of Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade, by Peter Weiss, is a hypodermic needle plunged directly into the playgoer's emotional bloodstream. It hypnotizes the eye and bruises the ear. It shreds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Blood Bath | 1/7/1966 | See Source »

Bennett's personal eccentricities, his supporters charge, also influenced the department's decision. The 35-year-old professor wears boots and overalls, drives a motorcycle, and has assigned the Marquis de Sade to his social philosophy classes.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brandeis Refuses Contract-Renewal To Asst. Professor; He Will Protest | 11/13/1965 | See Source »

The conversation piece of 1965-66 will almost certainly be last season's London sensation−The Persecution and Assassination of Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade. The author is a German named Peter Weiss, just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway: BROADWAY The Shape-Up | 8/27/1965 | See Source »

I have been told that the cockroach is of all insects the most repellant; as I have never seen one, I have no reason to doubt the accuracy of this judgement. It creates, however, horrible problems in dealing with Don Marquis's archy. Most readers resolve these by regarding him...

Author: By Helen W. Jencks, | Title: archy and mehitabel | 4/24/1965 | See Source »

The Team. Paris' Marquis de Cuevas Ballet instantly hired Nureyev for $400 a week, more than he had made in six months with the Kirov. His mother, brought to Moscow by the government, called him every day on government orders and pleaded with him to come home. But, he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Man in Motion | 4/16/1965 | See Source »

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