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From all the world's front pages last week flashed the snaggle-toothed grin of a stubby little muzhik-a peasant's son who in less than five years had emerged from relative obscurity to become the most amazing dictator the world had ever seen. This was no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: The Stubby Peasant | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

Every year a substantial minority of the college devotes most of its energy to rejecting Harvard's ideals and evading the responsibilities which Harvard attempts to impose. This can mean anything from neurotic delinquency to mere failure to complete academic assignments, and only occasionally includes departure from the University. The...

Author: By Christopher Jencks, | Title: The Exeter Man: Rebel Without a Cause | 11/9/1957 | See Source »

Although almost everyone has his brush with the military, it is the career enlisted men and officers on whom the nation's defense rests. The tendency at present is for only the mediocre, the neurotic, or those trapped by financial necessity, to remain after they have fulfilled their military obligation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Army Pay | 10/5/1957 | See Source »

He was a great jokester, with a neurotic's ability to charm a world he could not master. In 1835 he wrote what brilliant Novelist-Critic Vladimir Nabokov calls the greatest play in Russian. The Government Inspector. The conception, suggested to Gogol by Pushkin, was ingenious: a character is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mad Russian | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

"The director mustn't show off, and embarrass his actors by getting laughs at their expense. Nothing reveals people so much as when they are trying to be something they are not. Actors have to perform a spiritual strip-tease in rehearsals, and the director should handle them on a...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Guthrie Analyzes Director's Job | 8/8/1957 | See Source »

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