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Seated in his White House rocking chair, John F. Kennedy faced a delegation of top U.S. newsmen. The eight visitors* were not exactly hostile, but they were not exactly friendly either. Just two weeks before, in an ill-conceived speech, the President had charged them with a sin and told them how to correct it. In its anxiety to report everything, Kennedy had said, the press sometimes spilled national secrets; perhaps U.S. newspapers need some form of self-censorship to suppress news endangering the national interest. Unimpressed, the editors and publishers had trooped to Washington to try to find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: No Self Censorship | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

...This goes particularly for Madeline Rosten and Anna Kay Moses, the only women, switch about genially from whore to henpecker. Of all the cast they help most to keep the play from dragging. "I'm fast," says Miss Rosten engagingly, as Mae Rose Cottage. "You just wait. I'll sin till I blow up." But a few moments before, she was a garrulous, gossipy Mrs. Organ Morgan, and an almost lyric Rosic Probert ("Remember her./She is forgetting./The Earth which filled her mouth/Is vanishing from her"). And Miss Moses sings Polly Garter's song with all its appropriate plaintiveness...

Author: By Robert W. Gordon, | Title: Under Milk Wood | 5/11/1961 | See Source »

...missionary.) But I wonder if anyone else had the same impression I did concerning the Academy Award presentations. The "best" of the American motion picture industry: a comedy concerning the adulterous use of an apartment; best actor-the portrayal not of an honest evangelist but of a sin-ridden imitation; best actress-in the role of a woman of no virtue. God help us! Doesn't this add up to an awful moral degeneracy in our midst? Aren't the folks in Hollywood, who are responsible, disturbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 5, 1961 | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

Unoriginal Sin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 28, 1961 | 4/28/1961 | See Source »

...Messrs. Rexroth and Christensen may believe that they created something free of Freud and Jung when they offered their San Francisco ballet titled Original Sin to the public. In reality, they are much closer to the two psychiatrists than to the original sinners. Their Adam and Eve dance is in the tradition of sorcerers and witches, young nobles and peasants of the 14th century (see cut from The Entry of Isabel of Bavaria into Paris as Bride of Charles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 28, 1961 | 4/28/1961 | See Source »

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