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...premise of this peculiar Yugoslav-Czech fairy story is the kind of wish that every child makes at least once: to drift away to a parentless, teacherless land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Seventh Continent | 8/23/1968 | See Source »

...hard it is to say with packaged words what we felt this year and feel now. How difficult to articulate to those who are here for their twenty-fifth and fiftieth reunions that we, in our own peculiar ways, are trying to remain faithful to our own ideals. But these, once again, are the big words of blasphemy which have become unpronouncable this year. "Ideals." Humph. The tooting of ideals comes to so little...

Author: By Stephen D. Lerner, | Title: 1968 Descends Upon My Head | 7/1/1968 | See Source »

...Earth Opera's music is the peculiar relationship between the organ rhythms and the drum rhythms. The organ is used by them as a semi-melodic instrument while the drums are straight, but complex, percussion. This interaction between two staggered tempos distinctly creates a third master tempo...

Author: By Salahuddin I. Imam, | Title: Earth Opera | 7/1/1968 | See Source »

...always, O'Neill's language halts short of eloquence; yet in some peculiar way his characters speak a poignant, subliminal dialogue that makes the audience hear what does not quite get said. A supple cast that obviously loves and understands the play gives it emotive depth. As Hogan, W. B. Brydon is a raffish, truculent blend of peasant guile and blather, while Mitchell Ryan's sodden, dandyish Jim Tyrone is a tarnished peacock straight from Old Broadway. Salome Jens, with hoydenish charm, discloses the vulnerable waif inside the intimidating woman. Director Theodore Mann has sensitively staged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old Plays: A Moon for the Misbegotten | 6/21/1968 | See Source »

...published for profit, and one is not likely to buy it if one is not in it). Some citizens who are Real choose not to be listed. The author quotes Novelist Louis Auchincloss, however, who says: "The Social Register has gotten so enormous that it looks rather peculiar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Not Our Class, Dearie | 6/21/1968 | See Source »

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