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...Violent Bear It Away, by Flannery O'Connor. In this chilling novel of backwoods religion, the author writes extremely well, but seems to poke a cruel kind of fun at the confused and bedeviled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Apr. 4, 1960 | 4/4/1960 | See Source »

...Violent Bear It Away, by Flannery O'Connor. In this chilling novel of backwoods religion the author writes extremely well, but sometimes seems to poke a cruel kind of fun at the confused and God-bedeviled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA,TELEVISION,THEATER,BOOKS: Off Broadway | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

...Choshu clansmen in the affair of Shimonoseki Strait. At a Cabinet meeting in April 1944 he told Tojo: "Saipan is Japan's lifeline. If Saipan falls, surrender. It is the silliest thing on earth to keep fighting after that." Tojo shouted angrily: "Don't poke your nose into the affairs of the supreme command!" Thirteen days after the bloody U.S. conquest of Saipan, Tojo's Cabinet fell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Bonus to Be Wisely Spent | 1/25/1960 | See Source »

...only two games that fall, and no one had given the Crimson much of a chance of contain them. But the 41st point touched off a dispute that threatened for a while to strain relations between the two old rivals, and gave Boston sports writers an unparalled chance to poke fun at the Crimson squad...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: 84 Seasons of Football's Greatest Rivalry | 11/20/1959 | See Source »

...radio, man has learned to send signals over mountains, across oceans, and up to the moon and back. But the search for a radio that could transmit signals beneath the water's surface was sterner. To receive messages in World War II, subs had to surface or poke up the antenna-bearing periscope and risk detection. Last week word leaked that the U.S. Navy has whipped this underwater communications problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Waves Under the Sea | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

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