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The S.A.O. apparatus in France, depleted by frequent arrests, was further hampered by roadblocks, where police searched cars and checked identity papers. (They turned up an unexpected dividend by capturing one Jean Pierre Schecroun, 33, a former Beaux Arts student long wanted for his skillful forgeries of paintings by Braque...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Overwhelming Support | 3/30/1962 | See Source »

Sons and Lovers does not lend itself easily to a movie script, but Jack Cardiff has transformed Lawrence's novel into a superb film. The reader must follow a slow and agonizing series of conflicting passions presented in a style which is often deceptively complex. Through a skillful rearrangement of...

Author: By William A. Nitze, | Title: Sons and Lovers | 3/26/1962 | See Source »

Tomorrow Is My Turn (Show Corporation), the work of France's André Cayatte (Justice Is Done, We Are All Murderers), illustrates in skillful melodrama some subtle reflections on apparent and actual freedom and bondage. The subject is discussed in terms of two Frenchmen, one an uneducated baker (Charles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Of Human Freedom | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

As for his multiple autobiographical method, Lewis says that the several lives serve as a check on each other - the text reveals the consistently human trait of thinking better of oneself than others do. The biggest bone of contention with many critics has rather been with the fact that Lewis...

Author: By Walter L. Goldfrank, | Title: Lewis' Novel Begins Where Anthropology Leaves Off | 2/24/1962 | See Source »

"In contrast, the low achiever is poised and socially skillful, has positive self-attitudes, is flexible, admits worries and complaints, has less intense superego qualities, is impulsive, creates a less favorable impression, possesses less motivation for academic achievement, and has more extractive and masculine interests."

Author: By Joel E. Cohen, | Title: Study Reveals CPI Scores Useful to Predict Grades | 2/24/1962 | See Source »

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