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It once was a rare day when more than a handful of Viet Cong weapons was left on a battlefield, but of late the V.C. have become quite untidy: Operation Starlight netted 614 dead V.C. and 109 weapons. More recently, Vietnamese troops killed 34 of the enemy-and captured 34...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: A New Kind of War | 10/22/1965 | See Source »

And his gossip was inspired. "I came to know Proust during the War: dirty, untidy, with a voice like a peacock. His conversations were like his letters, interminable explanations of why he could not stay longer. He had an absolutely oily timidity, and made a great show of aplomb which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Game of the Spirit | 10/22/1965 | See Source »

It was 1922. In a hermetically sealed bedroom at 44 rue Hamelin in Paris, the brilliant, untidy life of Valentin Marcel Proust, now 51, was drawing to a close For 17 years he had prophesied this event to his friends, who were amused. He had diagnosed the instrument pneumonia-before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Concordance to Proust | 10/22/1965 | See Source »

∙ ANAGRAMS & ANTIGRAMS, says Borgmann, are words or groups of words that can be transposed into words or groups of words that have the same or the opposite meanings. Anagrams: conversation-voices rant on; medical consultations-noted miscalculations; the nudist colony-no untidy clothes; Washington crossing the Delaware-he saw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Word Salad | 9/17/1965 | See Source »

Kazantzakis himself would probably have refused to permit its publication. The manuscript was not ready; it is a first draft, rudely punctuated by death. It is all edges, untidy, angular, raw, the unpolished work of a perfectionist who invested 13 years on his Odyssey and put it through seven metamorphoses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Last Testament | 8/13/1965 | See Source »

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