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Inevitably the Second Coming at Twelvepalms is a fiasco, attended largely by crackpots ("You know, the ones who write books about their trips to Venus"). No one scorns them more than Brown. But, like them, he cannot give up his obsession. "I'll save (I will) this apple world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Will THEY Never Come? | 1/17/1964 | See Source »

As a native Southerner, Lowenstein feels a serious personal responsibility to improve the situation in the South. He expresses a genuine guilt for his ability to escape persecution that others cannot escape because of their skin color. "In order to really help," he says, "there have got to be enough...

Author: By Sanford J. Ungar, | Title: Allard Lowenstein | 1/17/1964 | See Source »

Drabness & Squalor. Shostakovich pronounced himself pleased with the London production, which had an English libretto written last summer by Conductor Edward Downes. He sat by Downes's side through days of rehearsal, apparently bent on tempering every hint of crudity. "He has a puritanical obsession about showing sexualism onstage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: Maturing in Moscow | 12/13/1963 | See Source »

Not until he was 41 did Still have a one-man show. And only a few years later, unlike his close friend Jackson Pollock, he withdrew from what artists not so affectionately call "the arena," or marketplace, to a small farm near Baltimore. His living room is floored with linoleum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Aloof Abstractionist | 11/29/1963 | See Source »

Unfortunately, Mr. Buck stems to have missed the point. Failing utterly to see the great need which his admirable system has answered, he has concluded that Harvard students, well known for their obsession with academics, require protection from the misdirected impuises of out defined by the survey as not in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WIDENER | 11/25/1963 | See Source »

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