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...more than the rock or the stump which the torrent strikes for a second, yet which suffices to direct its course. It is not so much that he calculates how he is to make his career a success--how, frankly, he is to boom--but that he has a queer, shrewd power of introspection, which tells him his gifts and character are such as will make him boom...

Author: By George W. Steevens, | Title: Journalist Forsaw Glory For 23-Year-Old Churchill | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

...threatened by a starfish, go snapping across the ocean bottom like a herd of stampeding dentures. The film has its faults: it grows repetitious and tries to provide variety with music full of scubadoo cuteness. Thus, by the time the saucer plunges down for a climactic survey of the queer fish and mating crabs found at the 1,000-ft. level, most viewers will be more than ready to surface, having had all the submarine miracles a landlubber can tolerate at one sitting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Study in Depth | 12/25/1964 | See Source »

...indeed a saint. But he is a watch-charm saint, a petty demon whose villainy is on so small a scale that its very earnestness is laughable. The crimes that this Narcissus drops like blossoms in the pool of his own image are no worse than sneak thievery and queer rolling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Petty Demon | 11/27/1964 | See Source »

...shock. (I"II admit it took a few minutes' chat with the naked Ginsberg to realize shock was hardly his goal.) Actually he finds it far more beautiful to sympathize--and this is how he treats most of what is ugly: the junkie, the leper, the whore, the queer...

Author: By Jacob R. Brackman, | Title: Allen Ginsberg | 11/24/1964 | See Source »

...this favor, anyway. Keep them off. For they hem me in from all sides now. They put in my mouth the taste of darkness. They give me queer feelings, they get me all balled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In the Village Hollow | 6/19/1964 | See Source »

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