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What a dreadful picture of the President! We had to look inside to find who it was.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 28, 1959 | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

"In popular language Hell is the place of dreadful punishment . . . Is this how we should think of Hell?" Not at all, says Life and Death. The Bible uses the word Hell to translate the Hebrew Sheol and the Greek Hades, which were underworld places where all the dead lived shadowy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Hell of Loneliness | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

Lee Falk, who for a dozen summers had produced plays in New England Mutual Hall, decided to throw in the towel after losing money the past two summers. Stepping into the gap came the Boston Summer Playhouse. The first offering, a dreadful item called Fair Game, was given an insultingly...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Local Drama Sparks Summer Season | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

The shock soon gave way to pleased surprise. As the performance unfolded, Laughton's Lear never forgot that his was a family tragedy; even the first-act simpering made sense, for it showed a fool-father truly stupid enough to be gulled by his ugly daughters, Regan and Goneril...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER ABROAD: The Storm Inside | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

Dinosaur's Dinner. At times, tiring of the earth's-end theme, Clarke pulls a switch, reminds his readers that mankind, whose veins run with the blood of Genghis Khan and Attila the Hun, is the more likely aggressor, could cut a dreadful swath through the tentacles, feathers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Escape from Gravity | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

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