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Printed at the top of the letter dated April 5 were the names of 56 oil and gas company officials-clear warning to each that his competition was being solicited to pony up for the New Frontier. Even more meaningful was the notation in the lower left-hand corner: "cc...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: Dinner Check | 5/12/1961 | See Source »

of them are dated. The to a German Friend, in 1943 and 1944, seem obsolete now in reference both to history and to Camus' later writings. In the Preface for the Italian Edition, where the third and fourth letters were published for the first time, Camus explains: "I am contrasting...

Author: By Jonathan R. Walton, | Title: Camus' Politics: A Door in the Wall | 4/28/1961 | See Source »

Unfortunately, Mr. Storrer's valiant efforts are over balanced by Mr. Gilbert's somewhat witless book. Of all the G and S satires, Patience is undoubtedly the most dated and least funny. The poetry of the pre-Raphaelite aesthetics is about as current as the hula-hoop. And, with only...

Author: By Anthony Hiss, | Title: Patience | 4/28/1961 | See Source »

L'Impromptu de Versailles is a play within a play within a play within a play, and the theme of all the plays is--plays. The Pirandelloid construction gives Moliere, who played the part of Moliere in the original production at Versailles, a chance to parody his critics, the actors...

Author: By Allan Katz, | Title: Comedie Francaise: Moliere | 3/18/1961 | See Source »

St. Joan of the Stockyards (1929) is wholly in the first category. Pierpont Mauler is a crush-as-crush-can Chicago meat baron. When a careless worker falls into the meat machinery at Mauler's plant, he is tinned with the product. This sort of thing makes Brecht'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Black Comedy | 3/17/1961 | See Source »

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