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Morning sheds a cold, clear light on the subject. The writer and his wife wander through the expensive desolation of the millionaire's golf course. She explains to him calmly, without bitterness, that he simply does not exist- he has never lived, he has only written. She adds that she no longer loves him, but she has too little strength to make a break, to start a new life; and he has even less. Death, the dread of his own unbeing, frightens him once again into the arms of the nearest woman- ironically, the woman is his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Body of This Death | 2/23/1962 | See Source »

Traditional Dishes. Though gloom is heavy on the West side of the Wall, it is thick enough to cut on the East. On Marx-Engels Platz. crowds wander through the "Christmas Market.'' a bright-painted hodgepodge of game booths, carrousels, sausage counters and Ferris wheels. The displays are trimmed with Tannenbaum branches and Christmas decorations, but the people remain grim and unconvivial. At the intersection of Wilhelmstrasse and Unter den Linden, knots of East Berliners gather to stare wistfully westward through the columns of the Brandenburg Gate. Murmured a bespectacled worker: "The Americans should have torn down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Berlin: Christmas Carol | 12/29/1961 | See Source »

...project will not contribute towards a solution of the Arab refugee problem. Those who have suggested that it may (e.g. the CRIMSON and the President of PBH) have been misinformed. Bedouins are not Palestinian refugees; they are nomads. And the tribesmen whom Project Jarba is to help wander only on the Jordanian side of the Jordan River. It is misleading (at best) to advertise the project as striking a blow for peace in the Middle East. PBH will have to be satisfied with the more modest goal of giving 300 nomads a more secure life...

Author: By Josiah LEE Auspitz, | Title: Project Jarba | 12/14/1961 | See Source »

Just in case you happen to wander into the I.A.B. tonight, those big fellas aren't the Boston Celtics, they're the (choke) University of Connecticut basketball team and they're playing Harvard...

Author: By Steven V. Roberts, | Title: Towering UConn Five To Oppose Crimson In I.A.B. Tonight | 12/6/1961 | See Source »

...bought largely with the guidance of Dealers Wildenstein and Duveen. Erickson began collecting in 1922, when he bought a portrait of a strange little boy by George Romney. English painters-Romney, Gainsborough, Raeburn-were fashionable in the '20s, but Erickson and his wife Anna were also willing to wander into richer pastures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: THE ERICKSON TREASURES | 11/24/1961 | See Source »

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