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...doors are sealed with a scrawled cross and "God Save Us," two citizens meet and, at a safe distance, talk. "I have a gun, be careful, stay back." One finds he knows a friend of the other's, newly dead. "Then I am a dead man." Enter a nun, robed all in flowing white, carrying a little white case with a red cross on it. "Sister, help me." She swirls up to first citizen, kisses him on the mouth: "Yes, you are a dead man." She kisses second citizen on the mouth: "You are a dead man too." Death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Heartland of the Absurd | 2/16/1970 | See Source »

...nun dances up to him, trills: "And I am a dead woman." Death enfolds her, black arms around white. They sway together and dance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Heartland of the Absurd | 2/16/1970 | See Source »

...world-as-airport, Evelyn-Hilary-Brophy-"I" falls in with a number of atrocities: a TV quiz show whose panel attempts to discover the favorite perversions of its guests; lesbian and youth rebellions; a nun hunt, and a plane crash engineered to secure human organs for transplants. In such an environment, rationalism mutates into absurd rationalization. Like rebellious cancer cells, words metastasize into puns and compound forms that lead destructive lives of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unholy Trinity | 2/2/1970 | See Source »

...Shea, the old porter, shines his buttons and dreams of the day when O'Neill's Hotel will be restored to glory. Agnes Quin, who started out to be a nun and ended up a whore, daydreams that her life-which largely consists of fat, grunting men and soiled sheets-has been magically turned into an old Olivia de Havilland movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Silence of Forgiveness | 1/26/1970 | See Source »

...Lady is Not for Drowning Can a former Roman Catholic nun and onetime Illinois farm girl run Manhattan's city-owned Hunter College -and cope with faculty hostility, student unrest, tight budgets and urban politics? Not according to Russell Miller, a math teacher and chairman of the teachers union at Hunter. When Jacqueline Grennan Wexler was appointed president last month, he said: "She will be dropped into a sea of administrative difficulties, and I predict that she will drown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Lady Is Not for Drowning | 1/19/1970 | See Source »

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