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WHILE EUROPE reeled in shock before Ibsen's drama of a woman who leaves her husband, the characters of Shaw's The Philander calmly consorted themselves into the Ibsen club, a forward-looking institution open only to men who are not manly and women who are not womanly. Within the...

Author: By Elizabeth Samuels, | Title: Love Without Sex | 4/28/1973 | See Source »

Shunning duty and emotion, Julien, the new husband, pulls aloof from his wife as soon as her adoration begins to threaten his freedom to shoot ducks and philander. "Why shouludn't life be easy?" he demands, and unencumbered by scruples, he sets out to prove that it is. Sullenly stalking...

Author: By Eugene E. Leach, | Title: End of Desire | 11/21/1963 | See Source »

Other students patiently spelled the names of their tribes: Kikuyu. Luo, Embu, Meru. Kamba, Kalenjin. Aba-luhya. And why had Samuel Mutisya and Frank Nabutete chosen, of all places, a Negro college (Philander Smith) in Little Rock, Ark.? "I want the experience," mused Student Nabutete. "It might be useful when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Out of Africa | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

The scene is the ruins of Athens, among which a few gods and goddesses still philander alongside the tourists. Orpheus, a hearts-and-flowers fiddler, plots with Pluto to get rid of his wife Eurydice, although she is really very fetching in her tight red pedal pushers. While Pluto and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera Boffola | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

The story, fashioned by Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon: a frowsy blonde (Judy Holliday) trails her husband (Tom Ewell) to his girl friend's apartment and shoots him, but not fatally. The rest of the movie follows the trial of the assault case in court. Attorney Tracy is defending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 28, 1949 | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

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