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THERE IS NO urgency in this magazine (the cover is an off-color American flag) and no excitement. There is no precision and no depth. And worst of all, there is nothing new. These same liberal journalists, who feel such horror over 1968 and so much desire to do something...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: The Washington Monthly | 2/19/1969 | See Source »

THE SHAME. Ingmar Bergman examines war and the artistic conscience in his 29th film. The visual imagery is brilliantly desolate, and the performances-by Max von Sydow, Gunnar Bjornstrand and Liv Ullman-are orchestrated with precision.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Feb. 14, 1969 | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

While Stoppard's play could probably not have been written before Beckett come along, it is every bit a peer for Waiting for Godot. The comic and tragic elements, brilliant in themselves, are ingeniously balanced and woven into the Hamlet framework. The dialogue flows like nothing I've heard in...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern | 2/8/1969 | See Source »

None of it matters until the end of the book, when the lovers, having established their own household, contrive to act out all their negative impulses in one big destructive act: the drowning, through negligence, of their child. The novel, which is self-indulgent in the extreme, would not matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Difficulties & Ecstasy | 1/31/1969 | See Source »

By repeating the measurement annually, he was able to determine with precision the amount and direction of movement that had taken place since the last measurement. Slowdowns & Reversals. At many observation points, along the San Andreas fault, the scientists found that California's coastal strip was moving to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seismology: Toward Better Quakecasting | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

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