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...Year: Alabama's Attorney General Richmond Flowers for his steadfast refusal to compromise high principles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 15, 1965 | 10/15/1965 | See Source »

...Aisley Maude . . . woke one morning, made my usual morning adjustment to God, with my Christian faith set strongly behind me, and my human limitation protecting me from too obliterating a vision, only to find that the picture was blurred, that God had moved, that the steadfast landmark, feature of all my maps, routes, views, references, had become an unidentifiable shadow. Now, if you are photographing an ancient monument of stone, and the stone moves and the photograph is blurred, perhaps it is wise to tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Emptiness Puffed Up | 8/6/1965 | See Source »

...chronology of his art shows (see color pages), few modern artists have passed through so many seasons of art with such persistent vision. For Chagall has lived through all the century's artisticisms, from cubism and surrealism to tachisme, and embraced none. Instead he has remained steadfast in the pursuit of his own midsummer night's dream, emptying it and re-emptying it, until it has become a distillation, universal in its appeal. Today his art is enjoyed by millions all over the world-whenever they pick up one of the books he illustrated, pray in the sanctuaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: Midsummer Night's Dreamer | 7/30/1965 | See Source »

...Future. At week's end Taylor flew back to Washington to report to the President-and he found Johnson steadfast in his policy of hitting the Communists where it hurts. Earlier in the week, at a three-hour White House briefing for 42 Governors, the President declared his determination to keep South Viet Nam free of Communist control whether it takes "20 or 50 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: War of Words & Deeds | 4/2/1965 | See Source »

...Brian's favor -Bert Lahr, Perry Como and Walter Cronkite, to name most of them-are vastly outnumbered by those who do not. O'Brian has excoriated Danny Kaye for 15 years on the grounds that Kaye's comic talent never escaped infancy. He is equally steadfast in his disapproval of Ed Sullivan ("Old Smiley"), David Susskind ("Little David"), CBS News Commentator Mike Wallace ("a vacuum") and scores of other performers who fall short of the O'Brian standards. "I'm not a Hessian soldier," says O'Brian. "I can't write what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics: The Man with the Popular Mind | 11/20/1964 | See Source »

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