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...Conduct), a favorite of Tunisia's go-go set; on opening night several ministers of state showed up, including Habib Bourguiba Jr., Tunisia's Foreign Minister. Now, according to Bourguiba Sr., it is only a bohemian den of iniquity where youngsters "practice a shameful exhibitionism in morbid and degrading dances." With that, Bourguiba ordered the Zéro closed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tunisia: Shudder at the Knees | 8/26/1966 | See Source »

...alert to family and friends?a habitually shy and quiet person who suddenly becomes aggressive and talkative, or the reverse. Other danger signs: depression and seclusion, hypersensitivity to little slights and insults, a change in normal patterns of eating or sleeping, uncontrolled outbursts of temper, disorganized thinking and morbid interest in such potential tools of destruction as guns or knives. Psychiatrists are quick to add that the appearance of even all those symptoms does not necessarily mean that a man is about to turn killer. But the symptoms do mean that he is in need of help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Symptoms of Mass Murder | 8/12/1966 | See Source »

ARIEL, by Sylvia Plath. Author Plath, who committed suicide at 30, wrote a mass of morbid but powerful poetry in the last few months of her unhappy life, and in the three years since her death has become the most celebrated woman poet of her generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Theater, Records, Cinema, Books: Jul. 29, 1966 | 7/29/1966 | See Source »

ARIEL, by Sylvia Plath. Author Plath, who committed suicide at 30, wrote a mass of morbid but powerful poetry in the last few months of her unhappy life, and in the three years since her death has become the most celebrated woman poet of her generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jul. 22, 1966 | 7/22/1966 | See Source »

ARIEL, by Sylvia Plath. Author Plath, who committed suicide at 30, wrote a mass of morbid but powerful poetry in the last few months of her unhappy life, and in the three years since her death has become the most celebrated woman poet of her generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jul. 15, 1966 | 7/15/1966 | See Source »

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