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...serious error to assume that departure from the Stalinist model means movement toward the democratic constitutional model," they say. For the West, they suggest: "We had better turn our face elsewhere, rest our hopes on other foundations than on the belief that the Soviet system will mellow and abandon its long-range goals of world domination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Book on Soviets Concludes Russian Citizen Values Changed From Family Ties to 'Success' | 7/30/1959 | See Source »

...hills and valleys of married life is really a delightful and tightly written little play. The plot covers thirty-five years of marriage, including the embarrassment of the wedding night, the birth of the first child, the problems with the teenage children, the "other woman," and finally the mellow maturity of middle...

Author: By Harold Scott, | Title: Summer Playhouse Presents De Hartog's 'The Fourposter' | 7/30/1959 | See Source »

...party moderates won all the places. Conspicuously left off was Deputy Party Chairman Herbert Wehner, a onetime Communist agitator who was the man most responsible for Ollenhauer's luckless flirtation with Khrushchev. The likeliest candidate to lead the party is Bundestag Vice President Carlo Schmid, 62. Convivial, mellow-voiced Carlo Schmid is by all odds the most articulate Social Democrat advocate of broadening the party's middle-class appeal. He was once an officer in Hitler's army, but in a noncombat occupation job in France, where his command of the language is said to have enabled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOCIALISTS: Germany: Ollenhauer Quits | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

...fond, mellow mood eventually turns sour. Kanin. carefully foreshadowing, leads the reader toward what should be a shocker of an ending. The combo folded, the narrator recalls, after its thunderous Negro drummer died of too many pep pills and too much whisky. Slowly, 25 years later, the sax player is made aware of a horrifying truth: one of the white bandsmen, obsessed with race hatred, deliberately fed the ailing Negro the poison that would kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lost Beat | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

...mild in manner, mellow in voice, retiring with all but his closest friends. He is an Overseer of Harvard, like his father before him, and a conscientious do-gooder who actively aids many a fund drive and charitable organization. Though he makes more money ($402,389 last year) than all but a handful of men in U.S. industry, he lives modestly, thriftily drives a 1955 Oldsmobile. He speaks and eats sparingly, never smokes, has a single drink of Scotch each evening (with an occasional "dividend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: The Prudent Man | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

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