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...dull to write, and certainly worse than dull to read. Either you have seen it before--in which case it would be repetition--or else you haven't--and are certainly not interested now. So we resist the temptation to play the record again--and instead make a stab at cutting a slightly new groove on an old, old problem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Toward Independent Study | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

...dull to write, and certainly worse than dull to read. Either you have seen it before--in which case it would be repetition--or else you haven't--and are certainly not interested now. So we resist the temptation to play the record again--and instead make a stab at cutting a slightly new groove on an old, old problem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Another Departure: Toward Independent Study | 1/30/1957 | See Source »

...airing in Massachusetts last week. In Boston, the governor's executive council of nine (lawyers and laymen, no judges) ended, with a dramatic reversal, a long debate with its collective conscience over the fate of Kenneth Chapin, 20, of Springfield, who two years ago used a bayonet to stab to death a 14-year-old baby sitter and her four-year-old charge.* What convinced the council was expert and dramatic psychiatric testimony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Insanity in Court | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

...realized with a sudden stab of joy that finally I had met a man who was as bored as I was . . . Now Banal was speaking, in his infantile way. "Do you know Monique has never seen the sea?" Then a woman spoke, Anatole's wife. "Why, that's awful that this poor child has never seen the sea. Anatole, darling, you must take her to our little chateau by the ocean. I won't be able to come because I'm redecorating the town house. But there is plenty of food in the frigidaire, and Monique...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bonjour Ennui | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

...comparison. Rummaging through his musty attic of past hits (Mrs. Miniver, The Best Years of Our Lives, Roman Holiday), he came across Somerset Maugham's durable old (1927) melodrama, The Letter, and last week dusted it off for the 21-inch screen. It was Wyler's first stab at TV, and the result was a slick, highly polished teledrama about a bored wife who riddles her lover with bullets and gets away with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: A Familiar Subject | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

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