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...monarch of Ethiopia. Haile Selassie I, is a lonely man. At 74, he has outlived his wife, who died in 1962, and four of his six children. His son, Crown Prince Asfa Wossen, disappointed his father by cooperating in a 1960 coup attempt and, though since forgiven, enjoys little rapport with the Emperor. Indeed, there are few even in the palace circle who can remember when the Emperor was Tafari Makonnen, the young regent to his empress aunt, who took the throne in 1916 when Nicholas II still reigned as Czar of Russia and Lyndon Johnson was in the fourth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethiopia: Lonely Emperor | 2/24/1967 | See Source »

Barney James is, in sum, a man well worth knowing, and he establishes an instant, easy rapport with his audience. Through Barney's memories-the flashbacks are as elegantly managed as anything since James Gould Cozzens' By Love Possessed-the reader comes to know Dave Doremus, the man who knew Kennedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Intimations of Mortality | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

...savage. Then, taking up his flute, he turned philosopher, evoked the soft and misty moods of a man looking back on sunnier days. Love Vibrations. Lloyd is the newest prophet of New Wave jazz - the freeform explorations made familiar by such saxmen as John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman. His rapport with his sidemen, especially inventive Pianist Keith Jarrett, verges on the extrasensory. The quartet's appeal is that, for all its flights of fancy, its fractured rhythms and criss-crossing harmonies, its music makes sense. Free of the pedantry and obscurantism that plagues the avantgarde, it delivers the happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jazz: Dolphins on a Wave | 2/3/1967 | See Source »

...relaxed as Author Jean Kerr, who remarks: "I didn't bother to be discreet. I thought, if I have to be careful I just won't tell anything. So I told everything." Each interviewer has his own questioning techniques, but what they all strive for is a rapport that will allow the subject to relax enough to show his real character. "It's wonderful if people will talk freely, just bubble on," says Theater Critic Theodore Kalem. "Lauren Bacall happens to be the bar-buddy sort of girl who is easy to talk to." New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Jan. 20, 1967 | 1/20/1967 | See Source »

...kitchen table with him. Full of the critical disdain of the educated, the man sarcastically mocks the girl's looks, grammar, vocabulary and dim wits. Gradually, their plight draws them together, and Playwright Westheimer achieves moments of mirth, poignance, compassion, and interracial rapport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Misery Hates Company | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

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