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...faults lie in the play. MallaHne said that a poet "is a man who seeks solitude in order to sculpture his own tomb." Waiting for Godot is Beckett's tomb. Need it necessarily be ours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Godot Revisited | 2/15/1971 | See Source »

...Mein), machine gunned the U.S. military team chief Col. Weber (right after MANO had killed Miss Guatemala because she was a guerrilla's girl friend), bombed jeeps, bombed some American restaurants like "The Hawaii" and "The American Donut Shop," bombed the newspaper Presna Libre (Free Press), bombed Castillo Armas' tomb and tear gassed the Peace Corps offices. Now, I will not argue that this is just a "tactical question." Violence which strikes innocents (perhaps the restaurant bombings) should be condemned. But before retreating in a generalized horror at violence, one should ask, which does the most violence? In sheer number...

Author: By James PAXTON Stodder, | Title: Guatemala: Muffled Screams | 1/19/1971 | See Source »

...been two years since the disaster at Consol No. 9 trapped 78 men in a trembling, burning tomb beneath Marion County, W. Va. Consol No. 9 was one of the worst tragedies in the history of an industry that has seen tens of thousands of tragedies, and for the families the end of it has not yet been reached. TIME Correspondent Arthur White visited the small communities near Farmington. where the wives, children and parents of Consol No. 9's victims -222 dependents in all-search to honor the dead. His report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Consol No. 9: A Decent Burial | 12/14/1970 | See Source »

...council's unanimous but hasty decision last week to change the Place de 1'Etoile to Place Charles de Gaulle. Judging from newspaper editorials and talk in the bistros, vast numbers of Frenchmen seemed to feel that the famous site of the Arc de Triomphe and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is too sacrosanct to be renamed for any individual, however great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: An Eternal Star | 11/30/1970 | See Source »

...Etoile is the scene of monstrous traffic jams, as an estimated 200,000 cars are funneled every day into the grand circle from twelve avenues. Still, the place maintains its grandeur. All Paris seems to begin there, radiating majestically outward from the arch. The eternal flame flickers over the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Against that setting, countless Frenchmen, who only a week before had solemnly laid a great floral Cross of Lorraine there to honor Charles de Gaulle, nodded approval of the demonstrators who marched down the Champs-Elysees toward the great landmark proclaiming: "Leave us our Etoile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: An Eternal Star | 11/30/1970 | See Source »

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