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Liz Fillo, even with a fever and a stuffy nose, was her usual wonderful self. She can sing anything from the bouncy (A Little Jazz Bird) to the wistful (Something Cool) with real style.

Author: By Sidney Hart, | Title: Jazz at Quincy | 3/23/1963 | See Source »

Tchin-Tchin sees the world through a whisky glass, as a couple of wistful rejects drink the lees of abandonment by their mutually unfaithful spouses. Margaret Leighton and Anthony Quinn are amusing, affecting and effulgent.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Feb. 15, 1963 | 2/15/1963 | See Source »

To be a Jew, as often as not, means little more than sharing a common stock of habits and lore: bagels and gefüllte fish, wistful jokes about schlemiels, the struggle against discrimination in country clubs-and childhood memories of the stately dining ritual on Passover. This, complains Theologian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judaism: A Choice for the Chosen | 2/15/1963 | See Source »

With Hemingway and Faulkner dead, this is not a time of giants. The public is too easily preoccupied with giantism-an understandable result both of the publishers' belief that bestsellers sell best, and of the wistful ache of uncertain readers to be in the mode. But literature has never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Sustaining Stream | 2/1/1963 | See Source »

Whatever the cause, Oliver! promises to be one of those theatrical phenomena that defy good taste and the saws of critics with equal impunity. Apart from being a cross-country box-office sellout, it is already accentuating a curious trend in haircuts. Hip barbers are clipping the tykes of unwary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Oliver Twisted | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

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