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Order of Aphrodites. But from the moralist's point of view, the worst was to come. It was the era of the great royal mistresses (Maintenon, Pompadour, Du Barry) and of the monsters of sex (notably the Marquis de Sade). It.was also the Age of Enlightenment, and medical science...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: L'Amour the Merrier | 2/22/1960 | See Source »

In the political context, Scotty Reston is not so easily classified as such doctrinaire liberals as Columnist Marquis Childs or radio-TV's Eric Sevareid. He is a liberal, and his key sources are weighted on the liberal side, including, in addition to Stevenson and Fulbright, Presidential Aspirant Hubert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Man of Influence | 2/15/1960 | See Source »

"I've Been Slandered!" Watching the show at his embassy, the Spanish ambassador, Juan Pablo de Lojendio, 53, who is the Marquis of Vellisca and normally the picture of diplomatic decorum, seethed with anger, jumped up and went to the studio. Bursting in, he bellowed: "I demand the microphone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Circus in Town | 2/1/1960 | See Source »

The victories increased the Crimson's season record to 6-4-1, and evened its Ivy mark at 1-1, but more significantly, gave promise that at last the team is ready to cope with the best the East can offer. The varsity will not meet a better center than...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Sextet Tops Cornell, Upsets Clarkson, 5-1 | 1/11/1960 | See Source »

The Negri opera featured a parade of animals, representing various habitues of the gossip columns, marching onstage to themes from famous composers. A black cat named Barbara (obviously Barbara Hutton) kept hooking men with a fishing rod into a diamond-studded coach to snatches of Beethoven's Pathé...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Back to Nature | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

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