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In The Reivers* William Faulkner plays a mellowed Prospero and proves an engaging fellow. Like an old man gossiping on the back stoop, he delights in sentimental recollection, revels in his role as a teller of tall tales, at which only Mark Twain is his equal. Above all, Faulkner carries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Prospero in Yoknapatawpha | 6/8/1962 | See Source »

The problem, says Teacher Goldstein, is important for men as well as women, because society as a whole is growing more and more feminine. If the 19th century U.S. was a masculine society of private enterprisers and empire builders -egotists to whom opportunism and ornery behavior were no sin-the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Male & Female Theology | 6/27/1960 | See Source »

Wagon Train (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* Ward Bond riding herd on all them ornery critters, human and otherwise.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: Time Listings, Jul. 20, 1959 | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

Form Subsidies. These remain the Administration's biggest headache (see Agriculture), but the budget envisions a $600 million saving in nonrecurring expenses for the acreage reserve section of the soil bank program (which was not extended by the last Congress), as much as $179 million on rural electrification, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Black-Ink Budget | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

A onetime psychology major at Princeton, Fielding cannot resist skim-deep analyses of national temperaments. The Spanish are sweet and mannerly but also stubborn and ornery. The Danes, far from being melancholy, are "the Bob Hopes of Europe." The French, they are a funny race, according to Fielding, with a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: No. 1 Travel Guide | 4/21/1958 | See Source »

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