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He shouted battlefield orders in a bellow that rattled the Halls of Montezuma. He stalked about under enemy fire as though he were daring anyone to hit him. He had an abiding love for the enlisted man who did the killing and the dying, and a sneering hatred for the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Fabulous General Chesty | 3/2/1962 | See Source »

Sail a Crooked Ship (Columbia). A very funny man was the late Ernie Kovacs (TIME, Jan. 19), and never funnier than when he was playing a shtunk. Big, broad-shouldered and vulgarly handsome, he had a way of swaggering up to some pitiful little twerp and sneering down at him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Unsussessful Crinimal | 2/16/1962 | See Source »

At first, Gizenga replied with a sneering refusal. On second thought he reversed himself and vaguely promised to come; but by then, the government was so angry that it sent orders to Lundula to "take all necessary steps to restore order" in Stanleyville. It might be a bloody task, for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congo: Fading Boss | 1/19/1962 | See Source »

Brubeck and his quartet still play much of the same intense, quiet, often dissonant music that brought them mid-'50s fame. Brubeck's Time Out has sold a phenomenal 200,000 copies in the several months it has been out, and his first single-Take Five, by Saxophonist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Successful Failure | 12/15/1961 | See Source »

But the campaign against Jewish "nationalism" was only dormant. Throughout the thaw, a steady trickle of anti-Semitic propaganda reminded Russian Jews that official policy had only moderated, not changed. Such traditional Jewish practices as circumcision, bar mitzvah, and the baking of unleavened bread drew sneering allusions in the Soviet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Anti-Cosmopolitanism | 11/24/1961 | See Source »

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