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Certainly, Stendahl had no intention of showing Julien exciting this mortal coil to the unconstrained accompaniment of a chorus of screeching voices, dominated by vibrating sopranos who soar higher and higher. Again, Stendahl had no intention of letting the weather conspire with the gods on the day of Julien's execution to show cloudiness and blue, the spacious firmament. Sorel strode to his death all right, but not to the majestic rumble of five symphonies' worth of kettle drums...

Author: By Margaret A. Armstrong, | Title: The Red and the Black | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

...nine years Baldy has sought to depict the plight of the reasonable Southerner who, like himself, stands aghast between the extremists. He has, for example, shown two antagonists locked in mortal combat, one labeled "Reality," the other labeled "Tradition." The caption: "It's a tough fight, Ma!" Baldy put "Reality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Voice from the Middle | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

...activity that is shockingly un-Oxonian: he is in a fair way to become wealthy as a teenagers' guitar-thwonking singing idol. A few months ago he answered an ad in London's Daily Mirror that invited young musicians to "Just Dial FAME." FAME's mortal form, it turned out, is the chunky person of Paul Lincoln, an ex-wrestler and Soho coffee-bar proprietor who runs a stable of rock-'n'-roll yodelers, is the muse behind hugely successful Singer Tommy Steele (TIME, Dec. 30, 1957). Lincoln heard tapes of Kris singing and playing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Old Oxonian Blues | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

...year-old, self-proclaimed prophet in his headquarters building, blew him, themselves, and five other adults and two children to kingdom come. The killers were identified by fingerprints taken from severed hands found in the rubble; Krishna's death was certified upon examination of his less mortal dental bridgework...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Misunderstood Prophet | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

...sins committed during so long a pontificate and in so grave an epoch has made more clear to my mind my insufficiency and unworthiness . . . I pray those whose affair it is not to bother to erect any monuments to my memory: sufficient it is that my poor mortal remains should be laid simply in a sacred place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Pius XII, 1876-1958 | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

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