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...ending is somewhat of a shock, and yet once it begins to unfold, the entire climax is obvious. Angelo falls in the well, thus isolating the dramatic conflict between Agatha, Pia and Sylvia. Their love for Angelo finally devolves into an unsure hatred of him; yet each woman wants Angelo, and in the end no one gets...
...took a new breed of adventurer-explorer to bring the world to Middle Africa and to unfold its wonders for the world -men prompted not by simple greed but by human compassion and scientific curiosity, drawn onward by the land itself. There was the discoverer of Victoria Falls, David Livingstone, the gentle Scottish medical missionary who went to Africa because an opium war in China kept him from achieving his ambition to go there. There was Henry Stanley, a British-born U.S. reporter, who went to Africa in search of a feature story for James Gordon Bennett...
THIS week, TIME'S editors unfold one of the great stories of our era. The Age of Research, they call our day, and a venturesome and productive age they show...
...Yonkers in the '80s, and concerned with a rich, tightfisted old widower in search of a wife, the play tells how a scheming lady matchmaker blows out every match she gets lighted, till she herself manages to become the conquering flame. The story does nothing so genteel as unfold. It catapults and ricochets: characters bounce out of trapdoors, squeeze into closets, hide under tables, eavesdrop behind screens; boys dress up as girls and cab drivers loop with drink, identities are mistaken and purses mislaid. There is all the homey, cheerful pandemonium of a horse-and-buggy age whose inhabitants...
...warlike atom is not new-the dark but necessary secrecy, the uncounted billions spent for uncounted numbers of atomic bombs, hydrogen bombs, atomic cannon, nuclear submarines and still-secret devices which may exceed them all in power for ruination. Now the story of the peaceful atom has begun to unfold. Some of the benign works of atomic energy already under...