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...anticipated objection that the critics cannot all be mistaken about Yeats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Graves & Scholars | 7/16/1956 | See Source »

Ignore all this. While a certain formality in dress and behavior is to be preferred, even in the summer time, the true Harvard man will admit to no barriers of custom or geography. Although he does not like to see his University mistaken for a country club, he too enjoys his modest amusements. All that you need for acceptance into his community is an inquiring mind intelligently applied...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'To Thine Own Self Be True' | 7/2/1956 | See Source »

...gooks and geeks of creation; Believe-It-or-Not is the name of our star. Each of us here thinks the other is queer and no one's mistaken since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tennessee's World | 6/25/1956 | See Source »

Reserpine, synthesis of which was announced by Harvard's Professor Robert B. Woodward,*has the advantage over chlorpromazine that large doses can be given to calm acutely disturbed patients. Cincinnati's Dr. Douglas Goldman reports that it often produces turbulence after a few days, which may be mistaken by attendants for a worsening of the illness, but the turbulence is a passing phenomenon. Mississippi's Dr. Veronica Pennington finds that the most enduring tranquilization of state-hospital patients comes from reserpine; its effects persist as long as a month after the last dose has been administered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pills for the Mind | 6/11/1956 | See Source »

...play begins to lag when the slap-stick is over. Randall, who himself plays the part of Malvolio, has turned the obvious solution of mistaken identities and misconceived ideas into minor melodrama at times. This converts Malvolio, actually a man of simple vanity and self-love, into a deep and muddled man. While it leads to great exploration of his character, underscoring of Malvolio's role seems disconcerting because he is actually superficial and should not arouse any real sympathy. Initially Malvolio's frustrations are good fun in the bawdy pattern of the designs against him, but later his quasipathos...

Author: By Gavin R. W. scott, | Title: Twelfth Night | 4/20/1956 | See Source »

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