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...every attempt is made to set the scene for his tragic confrontation with society. Budd cries out, "Good-bye, 'Rights of Man,'" and the second lieutenant angrily but too obviously misinterprets the ambiguity. With ever more pain-staking care, the discontent of the "Avenger's" crew is endlessly thrust before the audience. Master-at-arms Claggart is not yet allowed to be more than a puppet of the director...

Author: By David M. Gordon, | Title: Billy Budd | 2/27/1963 | See Source »

...separate opinion-later endorsed by Grace-David Rockefeller, president of the Chase Manhattan Bank, and two other COMAP members argued that the incentives and grants are only "stopgap" remedies. In the long run, "encouragement of private enterprise, local and foreign, must become the main thrust of the Alliance." The U.S., says the Rockefeller group, "should concentrate its economic aid program in countries that show the greatest inclination to adopt measures to improve the investment climate, and withhold aid from others until satisfactory performance has been demonstrated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Americas: Alliance in Danger | 2/15/1963 | See Source »

Manhattan's TV tubes are bulging these days with messages from strike-idled typewriter newsmen abruptly recruited, powdered, and thrust into blue shirts for the inscrutable electronic eye. CBS has added 26 hands to its news staff-many of them from the city's muted press. As soon as the strike began, the National Broadcasting Company programmed The New York Times of the Air, featuring such familiar bylines as Washington Bureau Chief James Reston. Capital Columnist Arthur Krock and Broadway Critic Howard Taubman. At first NBC paid the visitors nothing, on the premise that they were really appearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Moment of Candor | 2/15/1963 | See Source »

They crowded in on the car, which seemed alive with arms and faces thrust through the windows. The driver tried to inch ahead. A voice shrieked: "Watch out! You're running over somebody!" The driver tried to back up-no use. A woman's legs appeared on the hood, and disappeared as she climbed over the windshield and onto the roof. More people began stomping on the roof, and as it started to cave in, Larrazábal climbed out a window and onto the roof to try to calm the mob. A fat woman in a tight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Venezuela: Welcome Home | 1/25/1963 | See Source »

What we need are not paper definitions stubbornly thrust upon us, but a genuine analysis of contemporary imperialism, including its huge atomic and other military potential. The expression "paper tiger" actually leads to the demobilization of the masses, because it conditions them to the thought that the strength of imperialism is a myth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: READING THE REDS | 1/18/1963 | See Source »

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