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When the French fought in Viet Nam, they called it la sale guerre-the filthy war. It has grown even more so. The scrawny Viet Cong guerrilla, who has always fought from the shadows, has become an expert in the art of booby traps. At the beginning of this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Thread of Death | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

If first reactions are any guide, there is rough sledding ahead for the tough curbs on "trial by newspaper" proposed by the American Bar Association's advisory committee on fair trial and free press (TIME, Oct. 7). Its report, as summed up by Columbia Broadcasting System President Frank Stanton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Criminal Justice: Backlash for the A.B.A. | 10/14/1966 | See Source »

GILES GOAT-BOY, by John Barth. A labyrinth of intellectual booby traps leads into the deadpan center of a "university," which is Earth's metaphor for a mad, mad, mad world.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sep. 23, 1966 | 9/23/1966 | See Source »

John Barth, college English teacher and a leading comic of the theater of black humor, now makes with his academic robes like Mephistopheles-or perhaps Batman. Out tumbles a gothic fun-house fantasy of theology, sociology and sex, leaping across great tracts of human history. Fascism, Communism, recent wars, revolutions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Black Bible | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

Otherwise, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? falls into familiar Hollywood traps. It comes across as a multi-collaboration lacking a strong central influence. The stage production was funnier, better-acted, and generally more important.

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | 7/5/1966 | See Source »

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