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Anne Miner's timothy in love is much better than her last published work; Deborah Eibel's Elderly Hostess reads like a vaguely interesting passage of prose chopped up and strung down the page in small pieces (like the tail of a kite); David Berman's Meletus in the Provinces evinces a competence which is entirely devoid of charm or excitement...

Author: By Peter E. Quint, | Title: The Advocate | 3/7/1961 | See Source »

...foxhole, finds a bazooka there, turns it on the pursuing tank, destroys it and another one too. Offered a medal, the hero-who is only 19 years old-begs leave instead to go home and see his mother. His journey is the thread on which three luminous episodes are strung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Wave in Russia? | 1/13/1961 | See Source »

Married. Sammy Davis Jr., 34, high-powered, high-strung Negro entertainer; and Swedish-born Cinemactress May Britt (real name: Maybritt Wilkens), 24; both for the second time; in Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 28, 1960 | 11/28/1960 | See Source »

...vague way, Mark Higgins was determined to do good in the world-just how, he was not sure. Tall (6 ft. 5 in.) and high-strung, he could not settle down to the idea of college after boarding school, and the thought of going to work in his wealthy father's steel-fabricating plant in Worcester, Mass, appalled him. He decided that a year working with Missionary Albert Schweitzer at Lambarene in Gabon on Africa's West Coast might help him sort things out. There the work was backbreaking, but he loved the life; month after month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Wanted American | 10/31/1960 | See Source »

Dialogue with Jehovah. The plot is strung on the ancient Hebrew legend of the Lamed-Vov or 36 Just Men, who, although indistinguishable from their fellows, take unto themselves the collective grief of mankind: "If just one of them were lacking, the sufferings of mankind would poison even the souls of the newborn, and humanity would suffocate with a single cry." So frozen with man's woes is the Just Man that sometimes when he rises to heaven, "God must warm him for a thousand years between his fingers before his soul can open itself to Paradise." Author Schwarz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Book of Lamentations | 10/24/1960 | See Source »

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