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Love for Love displays all these characteristics, and it is difficult to imagine a more delightful revival than that mounted by the New Phoenix Repertory Company. Harold Prince has directed it with a marvelously light touch, and the cast bestows elegance on the incessant sexual innuendo. To unravel the plot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Elegantly Spicy | 11/25/1974 | See Source »

No Evidence. The federal statute involved is a tricky one. Although shooting someone deprives him of his rights to life and liberty, it is necessary to prove not only the consequence of the illegal act but the purposeful intent to commit it in violation of constitutional prohibitions-a tougher standard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: The Guardsmen Go Free | 11/18/1974 | See Source »

The memories were often harsh. The son of a shiftless, intemperate father, Shaw began tending the hardscrabble Alabama soil almost as soon as he could walk. When he was not plowing or picking cotton, he cut and hauled timber, hacked out railroad crossties, carved ax handles, wove baskets. At 21...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Heart of Darkness | 11/18/1974 | See Source »

Rosengarten is operating on some tricky assumptions in his book: if Nate Shaw is a typical black Southerner, only with an unusual mind, then in telling his own story he is also telling the story of all other black Southerners as well. His smallest action, if seen as typical of...

Author: By Nick Lemann, | Title: A Genius Behind The Plow | 11/13/1974 | See Source »

Administration-watching is a tricky business, because it relies so much on piecemeal information and guesswork and because the administration speaks its mind on important issues to alumni, not students. But the administration seems to be in a retrenching period, brought on by financial woes and slipping reputation, that has...

Author: By Nick Lemann, | Title: Harvard's New Party Line | 10/7/1974 | See Source »

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