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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...define the ecstasies and agonies of love, work, exile, hope, life and death in images of savage bite and lyrical beauty. Among the vivid images in Brecht on Brecht: Anne Jackson miming the simple glories of the world for her unborn son; Dane Clark doing an amusing Method depth-probe of which hat to wear for a four-minute part: Lotte Lenya conjuring up the ghostly, ghastly Berlin of the '20s and '30s in a raspy voice of tuneless authority. The Brecht on Brecht company of six actors is consistently bold, often astonishing, rarely commonplace. And doing Brecht...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Ecstasies & Agonies | 1/12/1962 | See Source »

...House Committee chairmen agreed last night that the HSA probe should be turned over to a four-man committee under the sponsorship of the Student Council...

Author: By Joseph M. Russin, | Title: House Chairmen Choose Four to Examine HSA | 12/8/1961 | See Source »

...last year's hit London play Ross, Playwright Terence Rattigan attempted to probe the nature of Lawrence's wound. The play is built around a crucial incident in Lawrence's life. Posing as a light-skinned Circassian, Lawrence walked into Deraa to scout the defenses and was seized by the Turks. By Lawrence's own account, the Turkish commander tried to assault him sexually; when he refused to comply, he was whipped, bayoneted and finally sodomized by the guards, then set free. As Rattigan sees it, the Turks had recognized Lawrence, and were aware...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tortured Hero | 12/1/1961 | See Source »

...sweeping investigation of "obscenity" in everything from postcards to motion pictures will be launched today by the Granahan subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives. The probe will reach Boston before Dec. 1, after sessions in Philadelphia and New York...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOUSE COMMITTEE BEGINS OBSCENITY INVESTIGATION | 11/13/1961 | See Source »

...week's end, while U.S. and Soviet diplomats exchanged protests. Air Force C-47 transports defiantly circled over East Berlin in a new probe intended to show that in the air, as on the ground, the Western Allies have freedom of movement in the divided city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Berlin: Muscle at Checkpoint Charlie | 11/3/1961 | See Source »

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