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The magnificent work of Bruegel, so beautifully reproduced in TIME, Dec. 2, is unique, inspiring, exciting and understandable in meaning-and is ART. The smears, the dribbles and scribbling of some contemporary American art are pitiful, really. Why are these things dignified by the title of art? Why are they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 6, 1958 | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

Britain's aging (78) Author E. M. Forster spoke out to the London Magazine on the subject of aging: "I reserve the right to be frightened at the thought of my own death and to mourn the deaths of those whom I have loved or haven't even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 2, 1957 | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

The Othello of this production is Earle Hyman, whom local playgoers will recall for his excellent work during the past year in Saint Joan and Waiting for Godot. He is ideal for the role, if perhaps still a bit young. Handsome and six-feet-three, he properly cuts a figure...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Shakespeare's 'Othello' | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

Three months ago the first measure of democracy was doled out to the native African tribesmen of Britain's Kenya, but from the Africans' point of view it was a pitiful inch for a desired mile. Under a constitution devised during the height of the Mau Mau rebellion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: A Mile or an Inch | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

Hurrying home to meet the rebellion, Coleman lost no time blasting the "rump session" attended by "a pitiful minority of wild-eyed saboteurs." Chairman Evans is "a well-known enemy of this administration" and Vice Chairman McClellan "the greatest constitutional acrobat of all times," and both "might as well prepare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSISSIPPI: Toward the 20th Century | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

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