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Specialists All. On that expedition was Norman Dyhrenfurth, a movie cameraman. In 1960, by then an American citizen and a producer of documentary films in Hollywood, Dyhrenfurth decided to have another go at Everest. He planned his assault with the precision of a man-in-space shot. First, he raised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mountain Climbing: Up to the Gods | 5/10/1963 | See Source »

But Henry cannot smother all, not a capable Glendower (Nick Delbanco) or a roaring mad Scots fighter (Robert Rose as Douglas), and absolutely not the visual effect of a production staged with a Prussian precision of technical detail. Indeed, the only serious technical flaw is in the trying matter of...

Author: By Robert W. Gordon, | Title: Henry IV, Part One | 5/10/1963 | See Source »

James befriended and encouraged him over a long period of lonely years --their correspondence is voluminous. But they were poles apart temperamentally. James wrote for a large, broadly educated audience; he stressed the general outline, the exhortation the sprightly analogy. Peirce strove fro precision, elegance and an impeccable logical structure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Place of William James in Philosophy | 5/9/1963 | See Source »

The grey-gowned figure in charge looks like a visitor from another planet. Between skull cap and mask, his head sprouts a startling pair of binocular spectacles. His hands move with confident precision and his even voice snaps with authority, but his very words seem part of an alien language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surgery: The Best Hope of All | 5/3/1963 | See Source »

Taste, restraint, and precision characterize She Loves Me, notably in the staging of musical numbers by Carol Haney, a stylist of spoof with the wit to be brief. In a wry ballad of self-castigation, Comedienne Barbara Baxley kisses the pleasures of sex and the single girl goodbye while Jack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Spring Is Here | 5/3/1963 | See Source »

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