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...last, with the Cuban blockade, we are standing up to Communism. And I shall let nothing spoil my satisfaction and relief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 2, 1962 | 11/2/1962 | See Source »

...book length, he invites others to share his discontent by showing how Americans have let their work spoil their pleasures. "I'm going to start out," Kerr warns in his first sentence, "by assuming that you're approximately as unhappy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leisure: In Praise of Uselessness | 5/11/1962 | See Source »

...chief shortcoming of this production is the performance of Austin, Pendleton as mamma's boy Jonathan, the pivotal role. He is good enough not to spoil the script, but he does not get so close to the real Jonathan as did Rol Maxwell in the Cambridge production. Dressed in the white of innocence, Pendleton enters with a buck-teeth smile, horn-rimmed glasses, and short pants. This is all very well, but his demeanor does not convey the pent-up pressure that will later burst into deeds of violence. In this Jonathan's makeup there is too much Little Lord...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: 'Oh Dad, Poor Dad,' etc. | 3/21/1962 | See Source »

...Thomas P. O'Neill, a Democrat, whom the eleventh district has reelected four times, told the CRIMSON that selling the land to anyone besides Harvard would "spoil the continuity of the University area...

Author: By Lawrence W. Feinberg, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: Congressman Claims MTA Should Sell to University | 3/3/1962 | See Source »

...Behrman, Johnny Mercer, Ira Gershwin, Frank Loesser, George Cukor. And as his personal legend developed, Lazar found himself caricatured in the work of his clients: Hart lampooned him gently, and George Axelrod mortalized his little friend as Irving ("Sneaky") LaSalle, the Hollywood literary agent in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: Swifty the Great | 2/2/1962 | See Source »

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