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...Clive Staples) Lewis is a High Anglican Lorelei in the gown of a Cambridge don. The author of The Screwtape Letters lures not to shipwreck but salvation, and many a troubled 20th century secularist who came to scoff at Lewis' faith has fallen prey to his urbane style and good sense. Years ago, he was a highly troubled secularist himself ("I had tried everything in my own mind and body; as it were, asking myself, 'Is it this you want? Is it this?' "). Surprised by Joy is an autobiographical mirror held up to a questing soul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Reluctant Convert | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

...happens every fall. The leaves change to yellow and crimson, and some 5,000,000 Americans change from their business suits and work clothes into red windbreakers and gaudy caps. Thus colored protectively against being mistaken for their prey, and loaded with a staggering kit of rifles, knives, binoculars, food, drink and camping-equipment, they head for the mountains, forests and plains of the U.S. to hunt big game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: BIG GAME in the US. | 11/7/1955 | See Source »

...murmurs to a cackling familiar. "Foul and necessary, fit only for gypsies-and kings." The venture involves the betrayal of a lady fair (Kay Kendall) to a villain dark (Duncan Lament), and incidentally the death of Durward, her armed escort. However, when the sinister birds pounce on their prey, the hero gives his all for love and sends them napping back to the knaviary. In the end it is Durward, the fly, who frees Louis, the spider, from his own entanglements, and the bold Scot wins the hand of his lady in return for the head of the villain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 31, 1955 | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

...have just finished reading the Sept. 26 article about Walter A. Rickett. "What a crazy, mixed-up kid!" Which goes to show that even the well-learned can fall prey to well-prepared Communist indoctrination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 17, 1955 | 10/17/1955 | See Source »

presents almost a savage bird of prey." But ex-Ballerina Tamara Karsavina, 70, who created the role in 1910 and had coached Fonteyn, recalled that Fokine himself had instructed her: "You are a bird of prey ... I want a mighty beat of wings, not graceful flutterings." As for New York City, both audience and critics loved the bird, down to the last feather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rare Bird | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

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