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Sir: I think TIME'S feature on prisons is one of the finest I have read in its pages, or indeed in any pages. Things are not any better here, I'm sorry to say, just dreadful on a smaller scale.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 8, 1971 | 2/8/1971 | See Source »

Nether sections of Avenue B provide the Boschian landscape of Hell. They swarm with dreadful objects: flaking $65 walk-ups and urine-stained corridors, a cat skinned live in the alley, bums and glue-sniffing Puerto Rican delinquents, burst trash bags and rusty fire escapes. All these things, lit by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Romanticism Cubed | 1/25/1971 | See Source »

The usefulness and morality of violence­ at home and in Viet Nam­ have become dreadful, Siamese-twin preoccupations of a divided American consciousness. A corrosively partisan debate concerning them has just been joined by two scholar-essayists­Pulitzer prizewinning Historian Richard Hofstadter, who died last month after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Morality of Violence | 11/23/1970 | See Source »

To call these efforts plays is a massive overstatement. They offer nothing more than a two-hour supply of mouth froth, a dentifrice rather than a drama. Vonnegut's cute conceit has been to debunk the Ulysses myth in terms of the Hemingway legend. As Vonnegut sees it, war...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Catch-23, Skiddoo | 10/19/1970 | See Source »

A party-crashing shaggy beard from the graduate school greeted King Mailer with demands that he account for some vague if unforgivable "sell out"- publishing in Life, or something equally dreadful. Mailer awarded him a nickel's worth of evil-eye and walked away. An aggressive Nieman wife monopolized our...

Author: By Larry L. king, | Title: A Former Nieman Looks Back, Part II Mailer and Styron at Harvard | 10/3/1970 | See Source »

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