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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will find relatives--whose existence I have previously been quite unaware of--but who have nonetheless managed to acquire a hotel and are, surprisingly enough, getting on. Well, seeing Brendan Behan's The Hostage at the Loeb a few nights ago almost changed all that. Though I'm sure my second cousin's hostel cannot be half as entertaining as the brothel in which Behan's play is set (in fact, to judge from those of my relatives who came to this country, I'm sure it's not even a tiny bit as entertaining), I was nevertheless ready...

Author: By Grego J. Kilday, | Title: The Hostage | 7/15/1969 | See Source »

...good things he puts into it) does a bit called "The Captains and the Kings" which would be the high point in any Tony Richardson film. And, as far as showstoppers, there is always Joan Tolentino's "Don't Muck About With the Moon"--which time I'm sure she'll have added another stanza...

Author: By Grego J. Kilday, | Title: The Hostage | 7/15/1969 | See Source »

Critics and connoisseurs will undoubtedly spend years tracing the imagery through earlier works. For the average viewer, the power and the majesty of Duchamp's last work lies suspended somewhere among its multiple metaphors and in the sage, sure wisdom imparted by an aging iconoclast that with every autumn comes the spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Artists: Peep Show | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

...interested in sex-and if I had had all of this thrown at me at that time, I don't know whether or not I could have withstood it. I think about my own sons and my own daughters, and I'm sure that many parents are concerned about what their children are exposed to. Human nature is so built that it cannot resist these temptations when they are thrown from every angle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: BILLY GRAHAM: THE SICKNESS OF SODOM | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

...business, the wildcatter is an operator who combines the cunning of a coyote, the nimble independence of a mountain goat and the ornery courage of a longhorn bull. Relying on instinct and experience as often as scientific aids, he drills wells in places where competitors feel sure that he will not find oil. Still, the wildcatters have discovered three-quarters of the producing areas in the U.S., and their exploits have written a rich chapter in the nation's industrial history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oil: Bad Days for Wild Ones | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

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