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Ibsen's Nora. Taunted by a nasty-minded teen-age neighbor, young Tony takes his horrified peek at the lovers and tells his father all. Jeff does a fadeout, and Oliver almost pies his type in fury ("What kind of a woman are you?"). Lucy, who has been rather foggy about her identity, apparently thinks that she is Ibsen's Nora: "Up to now you've treated me ... as though I'm still twenty, to be cuddled, protected, patronized. Finally, in any important matter, disregarded . . . So-now-I no longer accept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Paper Doll | 4/2/1956 | See Source »

...deference to the professional viewpoint, editor Melvin J. Lasky has given top rating to Malraux. The French historian-philosopher has allowed an advance peek at his The Metamorphosis of the Gods, which will be published next year. Malraux's high scholarship in the selected portion, a preliminary philosophical comparison of the art of several cultures, is fully palatable to the casual reader by virtue of his immensely exciting style. While the editor has made an admirable journalistic coup in obtaining the selection, its brevity perhaps leaves Malraux out of the Review's context. Close perusal of the text and accompanying...

Author: By Gavin R. W. scott, | Title: The Pocket Kaleidoscope | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

Germany and France will be at it once again, and all because there are no mountains between them, as Professor Whittlesey discusses "The Environmental Foundations of Political Society" in Geological Museum 43 this term. "Geography 117" will also take a peek at the world's geographical future, and will undoubtedly conclude that there's just nothing to be done about straightening out Europe's boundaries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tuesday, Thursday . . . | 9/27/1955 | See Source »

...Game of Hearts: Harriette Wilson's Memoirs, edited by Leslie Blanch. A saucy, intimate peek at Regency London's beaux and belles from the boudoir of a celebrated courtesan (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Aug. 8, 1955 | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

...Disneyland, the gigantic amusement park in Anaheim, Calif., scheduled to open in mid-July, Walt Disney will have a theater for a 360° screen, which he confidently expects represents the final step in evolution of the wide screen. Last week Disney gave the press a peek at it; standing on a platform in the middle of a circular theater, the viewer watched a 15-minute scenic tour of Monument Valley, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Balboa Bay, had the sensation of looking out of the same car or boat that the eleven-camera unit had worked from. The sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Newsreel, Jul. 11, 1955 | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

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