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The Baffle. But the challenge of pitching as well as he talks has settled Brosnan down. When the bench jockeys sharpen their gibes, the intent Brosnan professes to catch not a word: "I probably have a subconscious baffle to keep from hearing anything." A man who has spent eight months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Lowbrow Highbrow | 9/5/1960 | See Source »

In describing these tiny embarrass ments, contests of will, vain attempts to please. Author Sarraute puts them under a microscope and painstakingly focuses and refocuses it till they are seen absolutely clearly but magnified a hundred fold. The character-specimens are so hypersensitive to each passing emotion that in real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Situation Tragedy | 5/23/1960 | See Source »

Good drawing has declined tremendously in recent years, because if anyone draws well he is attacked as being sentimental or anecdotal. The result is that many teachers cannot draw well and neither can their pupils. Therefore they are doomed to create what I call geometrical or biological abstractions-Scotch plaid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Negative Realist | 4/11/1960 | See Source »

I was much interested in your March 21 story on Caryl Chessman, but I believe that his considerable lack of charm and/or innocence has little to do with the case. It seems clear that in a civilized world, capital punishment must be abolished because: 1) there is no proof that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 4, 1960 | 4/4/1960 | See Source »

Died. I.A.R. (Ida Alexa Ross) Wylie, 74, prolific British writer of novels (17), short stories (200-odd), and a charming autobiography titled My Life with George, in which George is her subconscious; of a coronary thrombosis; in Princeton, N.J.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 16, 1959 | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

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