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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because we don't quite know on sight who is who, we soon begin to lose the threads of the sloppily woven plot. Briefly stated, the opera tells of the rivalry between the princes Khovansky and Golitzin and their attempt to usurp the throne...

Author: By Ian Strasfogel, | Title: Khovantschina | 9/28/1960 | See Source »

...long-handled brooms to their sweepers, even if the tradition-bound sweepers might in some instances object. Then he went Harriet Bunker one better: besides cleaning India's streets, untouchables must also empty India's privies, carrying away the night soil uncovered in open wheelbarrows or loosely woven baskets or pans borne, coolie-fashion, on the head. Such a practice, said Nehru, is a "disgusting sight. Every sweeper should be given a proper container with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Bunker Broom | 8/8/1960 | See Source »

...comes young Jerrod Tobin, whose family moved there in the late 1940s to open a store. An endlessly fascinating playground is revealed to him by his Indian chum, Buckety, who first greets him: "We can be brothers and cross ourselves with clam juice and chicken blood to prove it." Woven into the boys' Huck Finn adventures is a darker tale of the Indians' past. From his grandfather, Jerrod learns of the Indians' once robust life, of how they hunted whales in canoes and dragged the carcasses back to shore as the symbol of their power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Jul. 4, 1960 | 7/4/1960 | See Source »

Hiroshima, Mon Amour (French). In a film artfully woven of languorous daydreams and short, jagged episodes of violence and death, a Japanese architect and a French actress find that love can grow from the atomic rubble of Hiroshima...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Jun. 13, 1960 | 6/13/1960 | See Source »

Hiroshima, Mon Amour (French). In a film artfully woven of languorous daydreams and short, jagged episodes of violence and death, a Japanese architect and a French actress find that love can grow in the atomic rubble of Hiroshima...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Jun. 6, 1960 | 6/6/1960 | See Source »

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