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...Alexander Pope and awaken fresh interest in "the master of the scalpel and the poisoned dart [who] reclothed clichés of thought so vividly that they long ago became cliches of language." He can persuade the reader that gabby Letter Writer Lady Mary Wortley Montagu is worth another whirl: "She had very few friends, but time was one of them." And he can be shrewd about such old critically-untouchables as Robinson Crusoe: "Having contrived all by himself a Little England, he turns Friday all by himself into a Little India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pleasant Company | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

...your Jelke story: headline of the week, month and year is "The Solid Gold Cad." If the jeu de mots was good enough for the Age of Reason, i.e., the 18th century, leave us give it a whirl in the 20th, and not a minute too soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 2, 1955 | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

Behind the entertainment whirl, the girls hanker after some intellectual life. Dorothy Dandridge slips into a pink shirt and tight slacks and thinks seriously about her private personality. As a divorcee, she is faced with raising her nine-year-old daughter, has delved into Freud and Norman Vincent Peale to help herself understand the problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Two for the Show | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

From Washington, the Premier went on a week-long whirl through New York, Philadelphia. Detroit and Chicago (Foreign Minister Gaetano Martino was going to San Francisco and Los Angeles). In Manhattan, where Scelba was welcomed by a cheering crowd, eager greeters pumped his hands and bussed his glowing pink cheeks. Some excavation workers called out: "Hi Mario! Paesan!" In two garment factories Italian-American seamstresses welcomed him with kisses, songs, dances and sentimental weeping. Amidst all the emotion Scelba shed a happy tear or two himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hi Mario! | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

...practical." Then he added: "I know the danger of [high-level conferences], and I know how frequently they are futile and useless, but at the same time, I think we have reached a point where we could try." The Senator's remarks set off a whirl in Washington. California's Republican Senator William Knowland, always suspicious of any overtures to the Communists, promptly asked President Eisenhower his views. Afterward, on the front steps of the White House, he announced that the George suggestion is "not the viewpoint of the Government at the present time." While reporters were absorbing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Time to Talk? | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

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