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...oo!" Eliza Doolittle might cry out upon reading your reviewer's statement [May 1] that "there is not a. . . genuinely appealing . . . female character in all of [Shaw's] plays." A few million of her admirers, who have found her vastly appealing, might join in her "detestable boohooing," as Henry Higgins called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 22, 1972 | 5/22/1972 | See Source »

Nothing less savage-or less funny -than Anthony Hecht's couplet commentary on Aesop, the slave as moralist, should introduce this small masterpiece on man's ingenious cruelty to man. Yambo Ouologuem (pronounced Oo-o-lo-guem), born 30 years ago in the French Sudan, now the Republic of Mali, writes from the point of view of victim. But what a victim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Brotherhood of Victims | 3/15/1971 | See Source »

...contend that they contain merely a report by Rackley to the members of the New Haven chapter on the situation in New York, where 21 Panthers were being held on charges of conspiring to blow up department stores. The prosecution contends, however, that they are recordings of a "kanga?oo trial" given Rackley by the Panhers, a "trial" in which he was condemned to death...

Author: By Garrett Epps, | Title: The Trial of Bobby Seale | 4/28/1970 | See Source »

...Henderson put the blaster in his lap and faced the door, listening for the ?oo?steps of Ygstifhe and his martian bully boys. How naive they had been, the politicians of the twenty-first century, how naive and how greedy! After the defeat of the Asian Hegemony in the Fourth World War. Tsun Chi and his cunning successors in Peking had been only too eager to use the help of their new maitian allies to recover their shattered power. And it had been so easy: just follow the suggestions of the tactful martian advisers and accept a few controls from...

Author: By Garrett Epps, | Title: Sci-fiLight Years Away | 12/15/1969 | See Source »

...Department of the Interior. It therefore gave him special pleasure when, while hacking his way through an island rain forest in search of rare biological specimens, he spotted a bird with a "yellow posterior and a peculiar, sickle-shaped bill." The bird was the Mauinukupuu (pronounced noo-koo-poo-oo), which had been considered extinct since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Escape from Extinction | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

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