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Yet the individual episodes themselves are sometimes magnificently caught. There is the cold insanity of the wounded moray as it fights the spear, and glares hate from what is surely the most evil eye in creation. There is the merry jig of the infant octopus, no bigger than a finger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 20, 1953 | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

Only the hard-bitten earth, the taste of bread and cheese, and boyhood's memories seem to have kept their force for the wanderer. Author Pavese writes of each of these with simple eloquence: "How often I'd seen the noisy carts go by, with women and boys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Return of the Native | 5/25/1953 | See Source »

Nonetheless, against all odds, and even against common sense, Albert forged ahead, shoving with both hands and sometimes with his cheek to get his small bulb out where it could shine. As Cooper observes, "The immortal gift of Albert Woods was his capacity for answering [the question of how to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Scientist Fiction | 4/27/1953 | See Source »

This year the rumor went around that the authorities and more sophisticated islanders were embarrassed by the primitive revelry of the Ra Ra bands, and would attempt to ban them from the capital. But in Port-au-Prince, police said they had no orders to stop the merry processions, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI: Justice for Judas | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

In the London winter of 1887, a grubby manuscript fell into the mailbox of the monthly Merry England. Editor Wilfrid Meynell promptly pigeonholed it and did not look at it for six months. By then the author, a certain Francis Joseph Thompson, had disappeared. Letters addressed to him went unanswered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Delicate Piano | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

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