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The shocker that leaves Humbert a chastened European innocent is that Lolita seduces him. For she is an experienced hoyden who has already been ravished at a fashionable summer camp. In the second volume the sexual farce is more corrosive and the human comedy less exuberant. The couple embark on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pnin & Pan | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

Considering the concert as a whole, I feel that Mr. Baldwin was far too severe: certainly the Debussy at least was not "musically unacceptable"--and it was performed after a minimum of rehearsal time. The Brahms, also, was not without merit: the piece is fiendishly difficult, with great rhythmic complexities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: J'ACCUSE | 3/12/1957 | See Source »

Walt Disney, who made a mouse enter taining, last week made a mousetrap educational. To illustrate an atomic chain reaction for Our Friend the Atom on ABC's Disneyland, Disney moviemakers crowded 200 mousetraps together, each with a pair of pingpong balls poised on its taut spring. When Physicist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Kudos & Choler | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

Road to Morocco. In spite of all the trimmings and the press of the unregimented crowd, most of the contestants turned in some flashy golf. Hope, teamed with burly Pro Mike Souchak, couldn't hit his hat and got lost in Cypress Point's tricky sand traps (on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tribal Rite | 1/21/1957 | See Source »

Booby Traps in Egypt. And although Nasser's Cairo editorialists attacked the plan as anti-Arab (they had not yet caught up with the fact that the plan is free and voluntary), Nasser himself awaited the arrival of the promised U.S. mission. "It is colonialism and Zionism that have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: What They Said | 1/14/1957 | See Source »

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