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...effectively communicates a sense of the breadth of Schweitzer's prodigious accomplishments, as writer, teacher, minister, musician, philosopher, doctor, and above all, as a humanitarian. It shows in Schweitzer compassion, devotion, and dedication--verities which usually groan with age and mistreatment when movie-men drag them fleshless from the closet. And you are surprised to be able to accept and enjoy these verities, the film, in an honest...

Author: By Will Snickson, | Title: Albert Schweitzer | 2/26/1957 | See Source »

...music by California-born Stanley Hollingsworth, 32, pupil and protégé of Gian Carlo Menotti. Commissioned by the NBC Opera Company, Bretêche closely follows the Balzac tale-a bedroom farce given the Grand Guignol treatment- about a wife who hastily conceals her lover in a closet, swears to her husband there is no one there, and then stands by in helpless horror as the husband has the closet bricked up. While much of the original's strength derived from the calm, understated manner in which Balzac unfolded it, the operatic version staggers forward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Moderns at Work | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

...mild blackouts, but that afternoon she recounted a weirdly disturbing episode: one day, of which she had no recollection, she must have gone out and bought a lot of flashy clothes-enough to put her and her husband Ralph in debt for years. The evidence was in her closet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: All About Eve | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

...Black personality in possession of Eve White's body who had bought those expensive clothes. Eve Black was fully conscious of what Eve White was doing all the time, but Eve White knew nothing of Eve Black-until she came out of a blackout to find her closet full of low-cut dresses, or woke up with a hangover that Eve Black had incurred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: All About Eve | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

Botch Dog. In Pawtucket, R.I., Eugene J. Moreau's Dalmatian neglected to bark when a fire broke out late at night in the kitchen closet, got himself deeper in the doghouse by biting the first fireman to show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 18, 1957 | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

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