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*Often attributed to Poet-Humorist Dorothy Parker, who publicly denied authorship: "My God, no. I demand an apology for even thinking I would write such a dreadful rhythm."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Into God's Slumber Grove | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

To judge from the wares on the bookstore counters, anyone with a manuscript on his hands can find a publisher these days. Yet every year produces thousands of would-be writers whose work is so dreadful that even the most tolerant publishing firms will not put it in print. For...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vanifas | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

Most American comedies are rubbish; The Man Who Came to Dinner is not. Most productions of American comedies are dreadful; this one is not.

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Man Comes to Dinner at the Union | 8/6/1959 | See Source »

L'Aiuola moves on three different levels, the philosophic, the political, and the intimately personal; yet all three are perfectly fused. It observes the classic unities of time and place and occurs against a magnificent backdrop of mountains (which the set of the current production has denied us). The theme...

Author: By John E. Mcnees, | Title: The Burnt Flower-Bed | 7/30/1959 | See Source »

The Communists insisted they would not leave office until their term is up in 1962. But nervously, Kerala's Communist Chief Minister E.M.S. Namboodiri-pad urged Prime Minister Nehru ("a good man") to visit Kerala and see the dreadful things his Congress Party was doing. Said the local Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Gandhi Technique | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

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