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Dates: during 1950-1959
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By late in the evening, Birrell's delight with life in Brazil was gone in a wave of man-without-a-country nostalgia, and his eyes were glistening. "I don't know what I'm a victim of," he said, "but I'm a victim all...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: The Gay Victim | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

The Highest Tree (by Dore Schary) is a disaster of good intentions. The author of Sunrise at Campobello is writing in protest: he is one of the people who, aware of the danger of strontium 90 in the air, would ban further nuclear test explosions. Playwright Schary's central...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays on Broadway, Nov. 16, 1959 | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

No better are the sentimental exchanges between Dr. Cornish and the young woman he loves. As his own director, Playwright Schary has only stressed what seems wooden or hammy. In neither capacity is he aware that there is an art to preaching, or that those who plead a cause should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays on Broadway, Nov. 16, 1959 | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

In what it juxtaposes and contrasts-chant and wisecrack, surrealism and photography, insanity and farce, demonology and Freud-The Tenth Man is telling and sharp. And Playwright Chayefsky has an equally good ear for the colloquial speech of his Jews as for their dialectical pomposities. But in spattering its theatrical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays on Broadway, Nov. 16, 1959 | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

Women live longer than men, but what kind of women live longest? Nuns, according to the results of two studies published by Dr. Con J. Fecher, professor of economics at the Roman Catholic University of Dayton (Ohio). The control of tuberculosis and other communicable diseases, to which members of a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Long-Lived Nuns | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

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