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Sir: It is difficult to tell whether our President is a statesman, a skillful politician or a clown. No great statesman could have said: "The one good thing about America is that our ambitions are not too large. They boil down to food, shelter and clothing." To say that our...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 15, 1964 | 5/15/1964 | See Source »

The Roman Catholic Church has 2,500 bishops, and they perform their tasks in almost that many different ways. Some are brilliant theologians, some skillful spiritual teachers, some church politicians, some Jeep-riding missionaries, some discreet bureaucrats. But in the U.S., the dominant mold is the pastoral executive: the brick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: The Pastor-Executive | 5/15/1964 | See Source »

Best known for murder mysteries, Author Simenon here goes straight, trading in his Inspector Maigret for a new hero, Publisher René Maugras-and the similarity of names is the tip-off to the author's basically unchanging fascination with death and the tangles of men's motives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Also Current: May 15, 1964 | 5/15/1964 | See Source »

The Adams House Drama Society's Oresteia is something special. Other productions this Spring have had skillful acting, direction and technical effects; this Sanders Theatre performance takes all these and combines them with intelligence.

Author: By Donald E. Graham, | Title: The Oresteia | 5/15/1964 | See Source »

The effects are skillful and well thought out. Anne Hollander's costumes, striking and simple, the makeup, the lighting, and especially W.E. Schroeder's set--all are striking in concept as well as in execution. One could quibble about Seth Carlin's background music, which sometimes seems unnecessarily distracting, but...

Author: By Donald E. Graham, | Title: The Oresteia | 5/15/1964 | See Source »

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