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When it opened at the Yale Drama School last year (TIME, Dec. 15), the play showed itself to be an anemic polemic against the war in Viet Nam, with little wit and less sting. Playwright Joseph Heller, of Catch-22 fame, has since cut and word-fiddled, but the show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Indiscriminate Bombing | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

Historic Trio. By and large, such questions troubled busy Americans only during pessimistic moments of crisis and political unrest. Near the turn of the century, however, the search for a usable past that would somehow square the original American ideal with exploitive American practices began to be the constant concern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Uses of Yesterday | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

By traditional standards, academe would not seem to be Eldridge Cleaver's bag. Yet he does have something to teach. Cleaver, who has spent nearly twelve years in California prisons for such crimes as assault with intent to kill, is the author of Soul on Ice, a brilliant polemic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Races: Professor on Ice | 9/27/1968 | See Source »

We don't believe in it. We never have. As TIME'S founding prospectus put it: "The editors recognize that complete neutrality on public questions and important news is probably as undesirable as it is impossible." The events in Chicago offer particularly striking support of this idea. Who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Sep. 20, 1968 | 9/20/1968 | See Source »

A feeling of waiting and speculation permeated all the concerts, however, and this feeling made it difficult to enjoy or appreciate what actually was happening on the stage. The reason for this was partly due to the audience, its great impatience and at times actual rudeness, and partly to the...

Author: By Larry A. Estridge, | Title: Newport Folk Festival | 8/9/1968 | See Source »

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