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...Okinawa village, Playwright Patrick has chosen a warm comedy level and stuck to it. Perhaps more crucially, Playwright Patrick, helped by able Director Robert Lewis and Scene Designer Peter Larkin, has created throughout an artificial, fairy-tale mood. Hence, though East is East and West is West, the twain meet and get along fine-for the good reason that an even more hostile twain, reality and make-believe, stay miles apart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Oct. 26, 1953 | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

Professor Kinsey's undertaking reminds me of Mark Twain's story about the dinosaur that was reconstructed from three bones and 20 barrels of cement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 14, 1953 | 9/14/1953 | See Source »

...Cents, by Richard Bissell. Life in the Midwest as seen from a pajama factory; a sturdily original little novel by a writer who began as Mark Twain did, as a riverboat pilot (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Jul. 20, 1953 | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

...Cents, by Richard Bissell. Life in the Midwest as seen from a pajama factory; a sturdily original little novel by a writer who began as Mark Twain did, as a riverboat pilot (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Jul. 13, 1953 | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

...Cents, by Richard Bissell. Life in the Midwest as seen from a pajama factory; a sturdily original little novel by a writer who began as Mark Twain did, as a riverboat pilot (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Jun. 29, 1953 | 6/29/1953 | See Source »

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