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Yet some are unhappy with both ideas: Senators Case, Cooper and Javits, Representative Lindsay, Governor Rockefeller. It is not a very large group, but it has its disciples, among whom are the students who edit Advance, a "Journal of Political Thought." Volume One, Number One has just arrived at the...

Author: By Robert W. Gordon, | Title: Advance | 2/9/1961 | See Source »

Sean O'Casey's Drums Under the Window is a lilting work that makes golden use of the English language. With this exception, however, the downtown offerings generally range from pretentious to overtly sheckel-minded. An example of a play with static ideas and superficial newness is Genet's The...

Author: By Frederick H. Gardner, | Title: Off-Broadway Theater | 12/19/1960 | See Source »

Cliff Richard, as the uncut diamond, Bert Rudge, and the transformed glittering gem of a commercial property, Bongo Herbert, handles himself well while acting, but is unconvincing when he slides into song. His virile voice doesn't quite go with his peach-fuzzed cheeks.

Author: By Jacques Easton, | Title: Expresso Bongo | 7/28/1960 | See Source »

Busted Penny. Almost as if his heart were not quite in it, Nikita monotoned through his prepared statement about the RB-47. "This new act of American perfidy shows that the assurances of President Eisenhower in Paris last May on the discontinuation of spy flights over the Soviet Union are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE COLD WAR: Nikita & the RB-47 | 7/25/1960 | See Source »

In a dramatic, 45-minute monologue, Van Rie had concluded his testimony by repudiating a "false" statement-sweated from him, he said, in a nightlong grilling by New York and Boston police-that he visited Lynn Kauffman's cabin the night of her death. Nor could the prosecution produce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSACHUSETTS: Sin & the Sea | 3/14/1960 | See Source »

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