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It is the woman rather than the Queen who dominates the play. As Tutin interprets the role, Victoria is capricious, arbitrary, petulant and vulnerable to the men around her. The principal man in her life is Albert, a prickly foreigner, a controversial figure to press and public, but the lord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays: Portrait of a Queen | 3/8/1968 | See Source »

John Wesley Harding represents for Dylan a quantum jump in style from what he was doing before he dropped out of sight. The unexpected discontinuity requires an explanation. The new record is haunted by tramps and prophets, robber-chieftains and gypsies, called forth one by one in solemn incantation. However...

Author: By Salahuddin I. Imam, | Title: Dylan Gets Religion | 2/7/1968 | See Source »

Such diligent documentation also characterizes Trageédie's rich farrago of Gaullicisms. De Gaulle may indeed disavow everything in the book, but nearly every acerbic quip and egocentric rumination has the ring of authentic Gaullist hubris. The general emerges as imperious in private as he is in public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: SOME GENERAL COMMENTS, ENTRE NOUS... | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

Civilization Transformed. By 1530, when a summit conference of Reforma tion leaders convened in Augsburg to draw up a common statement of faith (the Augsburg Confession) leadership of the movement had begun to pass out of Luther's hands. He continued to preach and teach the Bible in Wittenberg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Protestants: Obedient Rebel | 3/24/1967 | See Source »

The new European actresses, for the most part, are a flat negation of everything Hollywood thinks a girl should have. Rita Tushingham, though her eyes are a glowing glory, has a porridgy complexion and a walloping set of country calves. Julie Christie has a face straight out of Terry and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actresses: Birds of a Father | 3/17/1967 | See Source »

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