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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lived long enough to see himself transformed from a faded relic of some impossibly sophisticated yesterday into a minor classic. After World War II, a new generation viewed him-along with P. G. Wodehouse-as the last, slightly ridiculous vestige of the frivolous '20s. Country houses, stiff upper lips, cocktails-and-laughter-but-oh-what-comes-after and all that. Many of his plays flopped in the '40s and '50s and his fortunes sagged, although with typical resilience he embarked on a successful new venture as a cabaret performer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Noel Coward at 70 | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

About an hour after we left the curio shop the car began to get hot and sputter. The girl repeated her dislike for it. It finally died in the middle of the desert. The upper radioator hose had a leak and the car wanted water. I flagged down a diesel driver who took me about fifteen miles to the next gas station. I bought some electrician's tape and a waterbag which I filled. After waiting quite a while. I got a ride back to the car, fixed the hose, and refilled the radiator. The car started again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Road from Gallup to Albuquerque: | 12/18/1969 | See Source »

...which she wonderfully explains in the words, "My brother is a cubist." We immediately sense a world, not exactly that of the early twenties on the Continent, but informed with the essence of that time. The mood current among the rich, joining malaise to brilliant cultivation, typifies a dying upper class that feels no threat in extinction. Their easy lives far from the masses, and their resulting freedom and complexity of personality, allow humor and leisurely pacing parts in Lang's subtle character delincations that they never regain...

Author: By Mike Prokosch, | Title: The Moviegoer The Testament of Dr. Mabuse at 2 Divinity Avenue tonight | 12/17/1969 | See Source »

...pours the froth of inflection as if it were the champagne of wit. He is a connoisseur of surfaces, a sealer of the comic Everests of trivia. His plays are echo chambers of his own voice. His cool, clipped speech serves as an ironically British parody of the stiff upper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: High on Gin and Sin | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

Friedman also criticized Government involvement in higher education, the weaknesses of the tax structure, and the ineffectiveness of the welfare system. "Government spending on schooling is scandalous. It taxes low-income people to put upper and middle-income people through college," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Friedman Speech Attacks Army Conscription System | 12/11/1969 | See Source »

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