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JACOPO da Ponte suffered an unhappy fate. He painted in Venice at the same time as Titian and Tintoretto. It was enough to depress even the most talented artist, and 16th century Venetian dandies did not help matters by sneering that Jacopo was "full of provincial sap." Jacopo despondently returned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: REDISCOVERED MASTER | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

Faye begins his late-hour (11:30 p.m.), Sunday through Thursday inquisition by pointing to a pasteboard morgue and sneering adenoidally: "This is where I bury the people I don't like." As Chicagoans look on with mixed fascination and disgust, he proceeds to poke at the privacy and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Marty's Morgue | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

There remains the Lillie. In the circumstances, it is clearly no accident that she is at her best when she speaks not a word; for lamentable are many of the words she has to speak, or-worse yet-to trill. Indeed, that chill stare of hers, suggesting an insulted mermaid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Mar. 11, 1957 | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

The reader and his listeners are possibly sneering across the table at each other. Ah, well, there you have it. Harvard gownies, unfortunately, consider their as yet incipient talents so fine that they cannot possibly demean themselves or waste their time in ordinary political activity. The curse of the daily...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A New Diversion | 10/18/1956 | See Source »

I have never heard of Murray Kempton of the New York Post before, and if it is humanly possible I shall never hear of him again. His editorial on Vice President Nixon in your Sept. 3 issue is about the most crude and pointless piece of writing it has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 24, 1956 | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

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