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...chauffeurs and, along with Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia, is trying to sell the cars to the bosses to console them for the loss of their drivers. As a result, many a party panjandrum who once arrived at embassy cocktail parties with his chauffeur, now drives up himself-or comes by streetcar or on foot until he can learn to drive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eastern Europe: Riding High | 1/12/1968 | See Source »

...note is a Pirandellian ambiguity as the characters continually shift between their two poles of reality. Are these actors 'playing a mad brother and sister, or are they a mad brother and sister playing actors? In any event, the psychic locale of the play is a kind of streetcar named despair; the loaded revolver that glints with menace in the closing scene of the play could go off with equal accuracy in either the scorching Southern town or the icy theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The London Stage: A Streetcar Named Despair | 12/22/1967 | See Source »

...will be beheaded by a woman. The Devil saunters off, accompanied by a scarecrow figure in checked trousers and a cat "the size of a pig, black as soot and with luxuriant cavalry officer's whiskers." The prophecy is quickly fulfilled when the editor is decapitated under a streetcar driven by a woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Devil in Moscow | 10/27/1967 | See Source »

...fragile (5 ft. 3 in., 100 Ibs.) British beauty, she spun to international fame in 1939, when David O. Selznick chose her to play Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind; that part won her an Oscar, as did her Blanche DuBois in 1952's A Streetcar Named Desire. No movie could match the historic 1951-52 London and Broadway stage performances of Anthony and Cleopatra and Caesar and Cleopatra with Laurence Olivier, her longtime lover, second husband and most ardent tutor. The triumphs were fewer after their divorce in 1960, though she still won plaudits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 14, 1967 | 7/14/1967 | See Source »

...program for the library, but to the sure of the Harvard Square area. In the facilities include only tourist services and no buildings connected such the University, the entire 12- Harvard plot would be isolated from Harvard, no more a part of the University community than the streetcar tracks ready there...

Author: By Donald E. Graham, | Title: Harvard and the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library: Chance for Great Achievement Through Cooperation | 6/16/1966 | See Source »

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