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...Avant-Garde movement is, then, a quest for "full sensation, not just echo. We try to sharpen our own eyes," explained Ivan Nagel, Literary Director of the Munich Theater...
Brecht was never more didactic than in a series of one act plays he wrote in 1930. As vitriolic propaganda pieces they are good for young actors to sharpen their teeth on, but in 1964 a Marxist diatribe is pretty obvious and plenty dull...
...Half-Mast. Handicapped all winter by a lack of snow in Europe (most pre-Olympic downhill races had to be canceled), the athletes protested bitterly. The casualty lists mounted alarmingly as they struggled to sharpen their skills. Most of the favorites escaped unscathed. Oregon's Jean Saubert, fully recovered from a touch of the flu, flashed the form that already has won four races this winter. But each day brought new reports of bruises, cuts, twisted muscles and broken bones. And there was worse: trying to negotiate a tricky turn on the ice-coated luge (sled) run, Britain...
...that write-up on Actor Laurence Harvey [Dec. 6] had an old TIME flavor. I thought perhaps the anonymous chap with the curare -dipped stiletto had been put to pasture and was perhaps pursuing some hobby, like milking rattlesnakes. It would appear instead that he merely paused to sharpen his fangs. While it is difficult to work up much sympathy for the victim, who is probably tapping his glass slipper in protest, any poor bastard blitzed with such deft and delicate razor strokes is deserving of pity. Wait until he tries to turn the other cheek...
...DuBois became aware of two great thinkers whose views were to sharpen his outlook and influence his later actions: Freud and Marx. As early as 1904 he joined the Socialist Party, though he was soon to leave it to support Wilson. In 1926 DuBois made his first visit to the Soviet Union which "was for me a never-to-be-forgotten experience and it strengthened my belief in socialism as the one great road to progress." This development of DuBois' thought culminated when he joined the Communist Party of the United States of America...