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Walt Disney Presents (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Donald is caught in a mock-duck version of This is Your Life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Mar. 14, 1960 | 3/14/1960 | See Source »

...interview" shows, The Television World Asks. Hardly letting newsmen get in a question, Castro said in the course of a long ramble that the U.S. and Spanish embassies had been helping anti-Castro Cubans get out of the country. "I have always greeted the Spanish ambassador," said Castro in mock surprise. "I did not know he could dedicate himself to counterrevolutionary matters...

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

Discriminatory practices in voting diminish our international prestige and mock our national ideals. If President Eisenhower refuses to marshall signatures from Republicans to the House discharge petition, his tactic in behalf of the civil-liberties of school children in Little Rock will seem very hypocritical indeed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Honorable Discharge | 1/27/1960 | See Source »

...presenting his credentials as an essayist, Poet-Critic Allen Tate, 60, makes a mock show of inadequacy. He laments his failure to do research, bewails his faulty memory, confesses that, although he has been writing it for 30 years, he can neither define literary criticism nor guess its aims. Yet Tate confidently jabs his critical stiletto into a wide range of men and institutions, from Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson ("the light-bearer who could see nothing but light, and was fearfully blind") to criticism itself (it "is in at least one respect like a mule: it cannot reproduce itself, though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Thirty-Year War | 1/18/1960 | See Source »

Every major democratic candidate in the coming presidential election has expressed hope of addressing the HYDC between now and the mock convention, Little added. As a result, he noted, the HYDC should be "well qualified" to make a choice between the leading candidates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Truman Will Speak At Model Convention Sponsored by HYDC | 11/17/1959 | See Source »

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