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...late risers, there is Government 106b, the history of political thought from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century. The course given by returning Professor Carl Friedrich is held in Sever 11 from 2:00 till...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Need a Course: II | 2/2/1956 | See Source »

Early on. and while still sober, she can richly crunch even Coward's soggier lines, tangle with an all-too-cultured maid, or just move or stand still with feral ladylikeness. But not till a few corks have popped does she attain full stature. She is never so grand as when lurching, nor so gymnastic as when trapped in telephone cord. She employs her cigarette holder like a wind instrument, makes her gold scarf as vital to the production as several of the actors. She strikes attitudes so embattled that they seem to strike back, and she can dispose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Plays in Manhattan, Jan. 30, 1956 | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

...shock . . . The 'unexpected' will then develop with intensity. American leadership will suddenly become uncertain and perhaps frustrated. [This] type of change would produce far more damage to world affairs in general and to the economic situation in the U.S. National policies toward business . . . would be left uncertain till a new President took office ten or twelve months later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Press & the President | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

...upshot was that Murtagh postponed Big Joe's sentence till Jan. 18 and sent him off to search out gypsy scofflaws throughout the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Romany Road | 1/16/1956 | See Source »

Savage Indignation. In an age of savage politics, he was the most savage, in such withering satires as A Tale of a Tub and A Modest Proposal. When he fought, says Biographer Murry, "he bit like a badger till his teeth met." Men feared him, and three women loved him. Pride, it seems, forbade him to give them a man's love in return. With a lunatic idealism, he could not forgive them for having the natural functions common to all humans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Conjured Spirit | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

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