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...different churches and denominations as long as they are united in Christ? True, there are many serious problems in the Christian church, but I fail to see how the World Council of Churches will solve them. If you put some good and some bad apples into a basket, the rotten ones will soon spoil the others. This is happening now among the members of the W.C.C...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 15, 1961 | 12/15/1961 | See Source »

When Hamlet's mother sold herself and the throne for a pair of reechy kisses, all of Denmark trembled and sickened. It is hard to tremble at the revelations of The Rest Is Silence--partly because there was already something rotten in Germany before old Claudius was murdered, but more because these are pathetic, not tragic figures. What remains of the play is a kind of literary parlor trick--there is a certain fascination in trying to figure out what will appear from the real Hamlet in the next scene--and nothing more. To call this film worth seeing would...

Author: By Joseph L. Featherstone, | Title: The Rest Is Silence | 12/12/1961 | See Source »

...stalks, and Kwangtung villagers are reportedly eating bark from the trees. Among the fantastic mountain shapes of Kweilin spread even more fantastic rumors: the sour-tasting new soy sauce is said to be made from human hair. In Peking, when the first fish to arrive in weeks proved rotten, enraged women beat up a Communist official. Everywhere the traditional Chinese greeting "Have you eaten?" has turned bitter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red China: The Loss of Man | 12/1/1961 | See Source »

...summer night can testify. The unaltered male is belligerent, grumpy, concentrates only on the sex or lack of it in his life; his urine contains a special additive that can attract a romantically inclined female at a range of 150 yards. And the unspayed female makes a rotten pet. When in heat (in some cats, as often as every two weeks), she becomes outrageously wanton, rolling about, rubbing herself suggestively on the furniture, and yelling for a mate. To stop this erotic behavior before it begins, Greer urges owners to take Tom or Tabby at an early age (about eight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Keeping Tabs on Tabby | 11/24/1961 | See Source »

...town on a rail. But it is Italian, and therefore endowed with the historic decadence of old Rome, the gusty vivacity of the Latin temperament, the sophisticated air of the European continent, and all other benefits automatically accruing to foreign films. It hardly even matters that it's rotten...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Girl With a Suitcase | 11/16/1961 | See Source »

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