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...Governor turned him down. Asked a Justice Department aide: "Do you realize you are breaking the law?" Replied Barnett: "Are you telling me I'm in contempt, or shouldn't the federal judge do that?" This was enough to perplex the marshals, who walked out with Meredith and drove away while students' jeers rang in their ears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The South: The Intruder | 9/28/1962 | See Source »

Though at first glance it tends to perplex, it quickly engages scrutiny, and you are left with a feeling of unrestrained respect for the artist. No question, this is your finest cover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 19, 1962 | 1/19/1962 | See Source »

...city agony columnists like Ann Landers and Abigail Van Buren might turn up their powdered noses at such rural dilemmas. But Janice Tate, 37, the go-getting wife of a Corsicana, Texas insurance agent, is making a name for herself with her home-style answers to the problems that perplex the folks down on the farm. Though she had no journalistic experience, blue-eyed Jan Tate decided last summer that she could fill a Lone Star need by advising Texas small-towners on their big-sounding Texas problems. Packing her three "kiddos" and a picnic lunch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Troubles in Texas | 1/6/1961 | See Source »

...been left far behind. But Hyman is careful to adjust to the big time scale of this process, so that the proper prolonged Beethovenian crescendo results. For, contrary to the popular conception, Othello is not by nature disposed toward jealousy: he is "one not easily jealous, but being wrought perplex'd in the extreme." He says of his wife, for example, "I'll tear her all to pieces." Most actors would here face the balcony and bellow their guts out. But Hyman, realizing that at this point in the drama Iago has not yet fully drawn out Othello's latent...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Shakespeare's 'Othello' | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

...achieved." Nevertheless, in the long run, "our main theme of salvation should be the Grand Alliance of the European powers, linked with Canada and the U.S. The spirit of this arrangement should not exclude Russia and the Eastern European states. It may well be that the great issues which perplex us could then be solved more easily than they can by rival blocs confronting each other with suspicion and hostility. That is for the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Churchill the Provocative | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

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