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...evening's redeeming feature were the compositions themselves. A composer can weave simple musical threads into a dazzling fabric or unravel good broad-cloth until it is lint. Bach and Mozart chose to weave simple tunes into golden cloth...

Author: By Wilson LYMAN Keats, | Title: Early Music: III | 11/29/1961 | See Source »

...been said better before, and so often that I wonder how Kazan could dare to pass this mild little ladyfinger off as a cherry bomb. Currently, the Astor will admit no children under sixteen unless they are accompanied by an adult. If Splendor is going to unravel the mysteries of sex for anyone at all, it will have to reach a younger audience. Perhaps the prevailing admissions policy at the Astor should be reversed, forbidding adults to enter unless accompanied by a child under sixteen...

Author: By Raymond A. Sokolov jr., | Title: Splendor in the Grass (Alas) | 10/20/1961 | See Source »

Behrendt's special skill lies in his capacity to unravel the most labyrinthine international maze, and to explain the most convoluted international personality, with a few deft lines. His Castro is a bellower whose gaping mouth reveals a hammer-and-sickle tongue. Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser is a perspiring sphinx; West Germany's tough old Chancellor Adenauer, an uncrackable walnut. As depicted by Behrendt, France's De Gaulle wears spectacles that reflect the Gaullist cosmos: a double image of Charles de Gaulle himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Therapeutic Pen | 10/13/1961 | See Source »

...refusal to accept social and economic changes that have been firmly established in the American way of life, his announced intention of rolling back the course of history to (at the very latest) 1930, his weakness for arguments that unravel the bonds of social unity-these, surely, are the marks of a reactionary, not of a conservative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 31, 1961 | 3/31/1961 | See Source »

...there on the stage?in a play called The Shepherd's Chameleon, by French Playwright Eugene Ionesco?was an actor playing a character called Ionesco, a playwright at work on a play called The Shepherd's Chameleon. Three more characters, each called Bartholomeus, turned up and began to unravel funny skeins of academic pedantry in argument with the playwright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STAGE: Oui, Non, Moi | 12/12/1960 | See Source »

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