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Whether immunology fulfills this promise and becomes a major part of medicine's approach to cancer depends in large part on a harddriving, affable egotist named Robert Alan Good. A lanky (6 ft. 2 in.), generally rumpled man with an insatiable curiosity and an almost uncanny ability to assimilate any...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toward Cancer Control | 3/19/1973 | See Source »

UNDER MILK WOOD. Dylan Thomas wrote this verse play, as he put it, "for voices." The images that Director Andrew Sinclair has added to his film adaptation do not complement Thomas' language; they detract from it. The language that comes cascading off the sound track is bottled into florid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Quick Cuts | 2/19/1973 | See Source »

Pearson always seemed an unlikely sort of politician. He was a rumpled, bow-tied man who seemed to hate the necessities of electioneering and gave the appearance of someone who was barely muddling through. Nonetheless, he almost always got what he wanted in the end. The truth was that his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: The Peacemaker | 1/8/1973 | See Source »

Gardner's landlocked mariner is named Fred Clumly. Clumly is the police chief of Batavia, a small (and real) town in the western tip of New York. Clumly glumly delivers speeches on the topic Law and Order. He uses words like cognizant a lot and figures hippies are feckless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Magic Realism | 1/1/1973 | See Source »

While the rest of the cast is exemplary, it has only a shadowy existence on the periphery of the play. On from the first curtain to the last, Bates makes the evening blazingly his as a man slouching toward bedlam-hair bedraggled, trousers rumpled, eyes aglaze, and with an adder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Toward Bedlam | 11/13/1972 | See Source »

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