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...pleasurable disillusions, and-for the reader who is unyoung, unrich and undelighted-you have a fantasy very nearly worth 19 reruns. Archer's middle-aged tiredness is the necessary anchor in reality; the reader is not Billy Batson any more, and he will not believe Captain Marvel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: More Than 10 Billion Sold | 5/14/1973 | See Source »

After almost four decades at the helm, Eugene Ormandy at 73 commands an orchestra that remains a patrician marvel, even though Ormandy's interpretations occasionally tend to be more like glossy prints than the real music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rating U.S. Orchestras | 5/7/1973 | See Source »

...Sundlun--of Venice, not London--'s a marvel in Agassiz's smallness: Painted under directive of one point perspective The floor makes the stage look tremendous...

Author: By Deborah A. Coleman, | Title: For Venice and Rhyme, A Magnificent Time | 4/28/1973 | See Source »

Most of the special effects center around the Starship Enterprise, itself a marvel. Nine hundred and forty feet long, the Enterprise carries a crew of 430 in perfect comfort. Quarters are spacious and luxuriously appointed, and turbo elevators that operate both vertically and horizontally provide speedy transportation from one part of the Starship to another...

Author: By Henry W. Mcgee, | Title: The Greatest Show in the Universe | 4/20/1973 | See Source »

...novelist himself, so skilled that a few years ago, in Max Jamieson, he managed to write a strong and eloquent novel whose main character was a critic. The feat was the equivalent of successfully memorializing a dentist, and the decision on all sides was that Sheed was a marvel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Simple Waltz Steps | 4/16/1973 | See Source »

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