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...population, which constitutes a quarter of the human race, is told ceaselessly that the U.S. is "the world's chief enemy." To read the intentions of this sullen giant and to formulate its policy toward it, the U.S. obviously and vitally needs to heed the ancient dictum: "Know thine enemy." Knowledge is the basis of policy-but just how much does the U.S. know, and how much can it find out, about a nation of such implacable hostility and resolute secrecy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: WHAT THE U.S. KNOWS ABOUT RED CHINA | 5/20/1966 | See Source »

...Belcher the Ruler said, 'trouble me not, but be gone unto thine own place;' but Asa obeyed...

Author: By Rennie E. Feuerstein, | Title: The Rage to Riot--A Ritual Habitual | 5/17/1966 | See Source »

...more prolific friend and fellow Yankee, the late Charles Ives, Ruggles writes dissonant but cogent and original music. Sun Treader is a sober, seamless, one-movement tribute to a tragic hero, for thus Browning addressed Shelley eleven years after he was drowned ("Sun-treader, life and light be thine forever!"). Performed by the Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Zoltan Rozsnyai conducting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Broadway: Feb. 25, 1966 | 2/25/1966 | See Source »

...deserve a certain affection: they express a deep desire for ceremony and remembrance. Behind the tritest phrase, there is sometimes a desperate attempt to reach across the unbridgeable gap and tell the young what age and experience have taught. In that sense Polonius was the model commencement speaker ("To thine own self be true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: COMMENCEMENT 1965: The Generational Conflict | 6/18/1965 | See Source »

...sports car. Bruno is tossed safely aside, just in the nick of time. As Bruno views Roberto's corpse, he is reminded of the value of friendship and human beings. And Roberto's death reminds us, since the playboy's life proved fatal to him, "above all, to thine own self be true." You know The Easy Life is a good film when this last scene seems subtle, powerful, and dramatic...

Author: By Paul Williams, | Title: The Easy Life | 2/14/1964 | See Source »

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