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...exceeded only by their common terror of dying alone. The Bouins married in their 60s, and now, in their 70s, their communication is limited to nasty little notes to each other. Simenon car ries their story along less by turns of plot than by twists of the knife. Venom becomes the sole remaining source of vitality. And when Marguerite Bouin dies, her husband, who hated her so, collapses. He has little hope of ever leaving the hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Short Notices: Dec. 22, 1967 | 12/22/1967 | See Source »

...JOURNAL (Shown on Mondays). "Where Is Prejudice?" Twelve nice, reputedly unbiased college students of differing faiths and races are brought together for an exercise in venom during a week-long workshop. The catalyst fusing their experience turns out to be naked prejudice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 8, 1967 | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

Once the two women appear on the scene, they dominate the play perceptibly and strike plangent chords of passion and pity. Clytemnestra is the first to learn of her raddled husband's purpose. She spews at him the clotted venom of years of pent-up hate in a bad marriage; yet what chokes her spirit is anguish for her child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: OFF BROADWAY | 12/1/1967 | See Source »

...rightly directed almost all the audit's venom at the department's general examinations--an anachronism that ought to be revised drastically or eliminated. Students are convinced, and many professors agree, that generals are little more than a rehash of final exam questions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: History Department Change | 11/8/1967 | See Source »

...mood of the protesters literally shifted instantaneously to one of warmth and sympathy. Someone offered Leavitt a Harvard lunch bag, which he would accept only after it had been pushed at him several times. That ended a very distinct phase in the demonstration--the vent your Vietnam venom on Leavitt stage. Leavitt had personally proved to be a lousy symbol of the war machine...

Author: By W. BRUCE Springer, | Title: Mallinckrodt | 10/28/1967 | See Source »

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