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...music star whose wife has walked out, leaving their two small children with him. He describes her as "the fastest credit card in the South." Dillard asks his mother if she always loved his father. Her flash answer epitomizes the play's categorical imperative: "We was married!" Duty omnia vincit. But after a pause, her further answer shows why the play wins us through the generosity of truth: "No. Not always. I guess sometimes I near hated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Ghosts Walk in Appalachia | 11/22/1982 | See Source »

Before AT&T ever thought of it, Patricia has reached out and touched someone. Gerald, who looks as solid as Wall Street before the '29 crash, is love smitten. With a generous helping of comic relief, including Timothy Wallace playing a musical saw, omnia vincit amor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: MATING CALL | 2/9/1981 | See Source »

Matt has the haunted, agile, mocking temperament of a man whose family was blooded by the dogs of Hitler's Europe. To him, a child is too dear a hostage to give to fortune. After 94 elongated minutes, these deep dark secrets are out, and amor vincit omnia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Late Bloomers | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

...other films, Gertrud does not raise these questions in a religious context. A brief scene at the close of the film shows Gertrud, a recluse near death, telling the old friend who once encouraged her to go to Paris that she has chosen for her epitaph the phrase Amor Omnia. "There is no other life than to love," she says. And he, it seems, has turned from writing on free will to publishing a book about Racine, the dramatist of "tragedy of passion." But Gertrud is left to die alone. The final shot is of a closed door. Is some...

Author: By Elizabeth Samuels, | Title: The Last Link in a Chain of Dreams | 1/6/1972 | See Source »

...entrance to the hall, which was built in 1914 by an order of nuns as a residence for working girls, is surmounted by two earnest Latin mottoes: Dulce Domum (Sweet Home) and Labor Omnia Vincit (Labor Conquers All). The messages accurately reflect Schuyler's atmosphere, which is rather like a tasteful commune for conservatives. Ornate paintings and antique furniture decorate the common rooms; cocktails are served in front of a roaring fireplace before Sunday dinner. The residents periodically hold sedate musicales (no rock or four-letter words), and many of the students belong to Schuyler's wine-tasting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Commune for Conservatives | 3/1/1971 | See Source »

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