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...Most readers will be more discriminating. Kerouac had a likable knack for making his zaps and zowies add up, against all probability, to a goofy, over-the-wall-and-gone exuberance. Fariña creates nothing more than a pot mood: airless self-satisfaction. He writes like a campus popoff who read a book about Zen but got most of his education from Playboy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nosepicking Contests | 5/6/1966 | See Source »

...Seven he's got a knife! He's cutteen my stomat!" Blossom's nose needs wiping, Matawhero's shirt must be tucked in, Dennis' lost pencil found, Twinnie's tears crooned away, lice plucked from Mere's hair. And more screams: "Miss Popoff, Seven he's trying to kill us all with the axe for nutteen!" Anna revels in the torrent of these different personalities, faces and colors. She thinks to herself that if she had ever borne children she would have wanted them this way-the "offspring of many sires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wildly Alive | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

...trading shin kicks and guzzling highballs to numb the pain-he was busy beefing up the Trib's sports section, with a canny eye for talent. It was Coach Woodward who hired Sports Columnist Red Smith away from the Philadelphia Record in 1945. "I was also an awful popoff," said Woodward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Return of The Coach | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

...side sat lanky, leonine Premier George Papandreou with members of his Government and leaders of other political groups. At the other end were Churchill, Eden, Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander, Lieut. General Ronald Scobie, U.S. Ambassador Lincoln MacVeagh, French Ambassador Jean Batlen, Soviet Military Attaché Colonel Gregory Popoff. Only the ELAS seats were vacant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Mission to Athens | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

...Promptly Popoff paraded again, this time garbed only in his crown. "Let my brothers out of jail," he shouted. Result: two years for the Czar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: BRITISH COLUMBIA: Strip for Freedom | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

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