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Your liability for later years Is giving your accountants many tears: And till such time as they and we can come To amicable settlement on the sum That represents your tax-bill to the State I'll leave the overpayment to its fate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Taxing Couplets | 3/31/1961 | See Source »

...first train in line had drained its batteries, and again the passengers waited until an engine could drag it away. In all, 80 trains had been delayed or stopped cold, and many of the passengers, suffering immobility for as long as eight hours, did not get home till long past 1 a.m. Clucked one New Canaan (Conn.) housewife who waited at the station for her husband: "Watching those men getting off the train was the closest thing to a death march I have ever seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Great Train Rack | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

...begin our lives by punishing our siblings. In adolescence we punish our parents. When we marry we continue the punishment by other means, till death do us part...

Author: By John A. Rice, | Title: Bentley Finds 'Misery' in Comedy, Compares It With Tragedy, Farce | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

...have a very imaginative mind. Wait till you see the insectivorous and carnivorous plants I've got in Konga. It amazes my family and friends--they say, 'Herm, did you think of that...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Herman Cohen | 3/23/1961 | See Source »

...anticipating Beckett and lonesco: the impossibility of communication and the paralysis of feeling. At the play's violent end, Garga and Shlink face each other with only a numbing sense of apartness to show for their fiercely intimate enmity: "If you crammed a ship full of human bodies till it burst, the loneliness inside it would be so great that they would turn to ice ... so great is our isolation that even conflict is impossible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Black Comedy | 3/17/1961 | See Source »

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