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So, at last, began El Retorno, fulfilling the dictator's endlessly repeated vow to come back some day to the troubled country where the name of Perón still commands the almost religious adulation of 3,000,000 followers. His pledge to return was originally proposed by Peronista...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Argentina: The Return That Wasn't | 12/11/1964 | See Source »

When Red China's Premier accepted Moscow's invitation to the 47th anniversary celebration of the Bolshevik Revolution, it became obvious that Communism's two big powers are trying to ease their unseemly, downright embarrassing differences, which had become something of a personal obsession to Khrushchev. There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communists: The Era of Many Romes | 11/13/1964 | See Source »

Speaking to a Dunster House Forum, Durr said that the South's Bible Belt heritage means that "Being saved is half the fun of sinning." Because of the South's obsession with sin and repentance, it interprets any criticism as confession of having sinned. Thus, Durr said, a Southerner who...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: South's Religious Heritage Called Key to Silence on Discrimination | 11/5/1964 | See Source »

The Londoners are sure, meticulous professionals who paint as if every brush stroke were their last. They are totally uninterested in the haunting, elusive landscape that for centuries has been the obsession of English painters. Rather, it is the minor and least honored theme of English art, literary painting, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: Britannia's New Wave | 10/9/1964 | See Source »

The Defense is Nabokov's version of one of the most dependable items (almost as obligatory as the one about a tuberculosis sanitarium) in the repertory of the young European romantic after World War I. It is the story of a genius chess player who is at last driven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Faded Snapshot | 10/2/1964 | See Source »

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