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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...center spread, this time by Sandy Kaye, is less objectionable than Identity's previous double page panoramas, probably because it is printed in large, easily readable type, and doesn't have to look like a spruce tree unless you really want it to. The poetry is competent, a description of a winter scene with assorted animals, and the images are crisp and economically executed...

Author: By Peter E. Quint, | Title: Identity | 2/20/1959 | See Source »

...life, she liked walking; someone has said that she moved like a souped-up glacier, or like a mass of primordial mud. Though young ladies did not usually walk alone at night in those days, Gertrude knew she was safe. In fact, she promised to climb a tree at the approch of a masher--then drop on him and squash...

Author: By Alice P. Albright, | Title: Gertrude Stein at Radcliffe: Most Brilliant Women Student | 2/18/1959 | See Source »

Adam is a wooden-faced, milk-muscled youth, modestly girdled in verdure. Eve is a ravishing brunette, as thickly mantled in leaves as any maple tree. Above their heads, cast in modern Italian, drifts the story of Genesis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Big Puffs of Smoke | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

...Hanging Tree (Baroda; Warner), another "psychological western," is based on the rather odd premise that the American West was won on the consulting couches of Vienna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 16, 1959 | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

...cinema's outstanding masterpieces. The trilogy is based on one of modern India's most popular novels, Pather Panchali, by Bibhuti Bannerji. Part One, Pather Panchali (TIME, Oct. 20). told a story of village life in northern India; of how a family tree was felled by the wind of the world; and of how the survivors, in anguish and confusion, broke with the medieval past and set out upon the weary and sorrowful journey to modern times. Aparajito ("The Story of Apu") describes their dreadful, beautiful encounter with the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 16, 1959 | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

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