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Blake peels the petals off this flowery picture with loving precision. Disraeli was born in 1804, in no sense underprivileged. His father Isaac was a well-known, successful anthologist with a pleasant country house and an entree into at least the second rank of English society. Dizzy could have gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Swinger for All Seasons | 3/24/1967 | See Source »

THE WILD DUCK. Although he was dedicated to candor in human relations, Playwright Henrik Ibsen recognized all too clearly that it is kinder to consider what men wish they could be than to deal with them as they are. In its revival of this 1884 play, the APA troupe performs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Mar. 17, 1967 | 3/17/1967 | See Source »

The arbitrariness of the Maost leadership has been brought into sharper focus during the purge that is being carried out at present (mid-1966). Purges or "semi-purges" in the past were carried out with a kind of surgical precision. Quite often the victims could be linked with policy disagreements...

Author: By Donald W. Klein, | Title: Frustrated Young Leaders Pose Problems For Chinese Communists | 3/11/1967 | See Source »

THE WILD DUCK. Although dedicated to candor in human relations, Henrik Ibsen also recognized that while it may be just to deal with men for what they are, it is often kinder to consider what they wish they could be. In its revival of the 1884 drama, the APA troupe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Feb. 24, 1967 | 2/24/1967 | See Source »

Finley has created for his House an image which, like a thesis, is the length and shadow of temperament. Wrote e. e. cummings of John Finley, "he generates a particular precision of vitality which our fathers called 'character.'" Eliot House has a vision of itself as a good and distinctive...

Author: By John D. Reed, | Title: John Finley | 2/21/1967 | See Source »

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