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...artistically superb interpretation of an extremely complex and difficult tragedy. "He Who Gets Slapped," the Theatre Guild has contributed what is probably the most consistently excellent revival of a season that has already witnessed Moliere, Shaw, and Shakespeare...
Even as Stenia spoke, the crack of gunfire could be heard on the bridge. It attracted little attention; political murder was almost a commonplace in Poland. A complex, undeclared, ideological civil war was raging under the shadow of the Red Army's continuing occupation of the country it had liberated. Seven of prewar Poland's 35 millions had died in World War II; life had become so cheap that the struggle for Poland could scarcely be confined to the ballot...
...Leyte, Okinawa-but they remain isolated incidents on the war's vastest and most unfamiliar battlefield. TIME Editor Cant has fitted these battles into the context of comprehensive, coherent history. The battle narratives are packed with detailed descriptions of the forces involved, the missions assigned to each, the complex of pressures which determined the outcome. At the same time, Cant points out the needs which governed the course and timing of U.S. operations...
...concerned. Previous references to Iran which have appeared in both TIME and LIFE have contained erroneous and unfriendly statements. Such errors are largely the product of ignorance and credulity. Our reporters in the Near East are often shockingly innocent of the background, are generally quite baffled by the complex social and political factors they are called on to describe and appraise; fatigued, confused, prejudiced often by inconveniences, they become the easy victims of cynical and disillusioned residents, exiled for good or bad reasons from their own country nursing personal grievances and frequently, for commercial or political purposes, anxious to inflame...
...from her bastard son, who was dying of consumption. Sometimes Lillian could hear Red, Lem, Butch and Shorty Clapp exchanging local gossip. Others whom Lillian wondered about include: Lawyer Pettigrew, an ambitious politician who had seduced pretty Meg Taylor in the underbrush; Schoolmarm Fisher, who had a lurid mother complex; Rufe Albright, who frolicked in the barn with fat Fanny Rhimer; and precocious young Gregory Beamer, who persuaded Lillian's adolescent sister to bathe in the buff with...