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The result, as eye-filling as ever, was an example of what Sadler's Wells likes to do best: the full-length romantic ballet in classical style. The ballet chorus, dressed in autumn colors as peasants, in regal purples and crimsons as court maidens, in severe white as swans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sadler's Return | 9/21/1953 | See Source »

¶ Cut authorized flying time 20%, a grievous blow to the precision training of combat crews.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: Tailored to Fit | 9/7/1953 | See Source »

Only one picture was designed to remind Germans of Big Brother's big fist. Its title: The End. Subject: Hitler in his last moments in his crumbling Berlin bunker, a drooling, raving maniac surrounded by besotted generals. The rest of the exhibit was thoroughly predictable: noble Lenins, fatherly Stalins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Red Realism | 9/7/1953 | See Source »

Out of the Casa Rosada (Argentina's White House) and into a waiting limousine one day last week walked five members of a visiting Soviet trade mission, beaming with uncommon good will. After two months of dickering, they had signed a treaty with the Argentines under which the two...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Foot in the Door | 8/17/1953 | See Source »

Their orchestration is highbrow, including a lot of counterpoint, but every Sauter-Finegan arrangement has either a palpable atmosphere or a clear story line or both, without ever tripping over its danceable rhythm. With the precision of a Marine parade and the grace of a lace handkerchief waving on the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Sound | 8/17/1953 | See Source »

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