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In Pather Panchali, director Satyijit Ray has recorded certain portions of the life of an Indian family over a ten year period, describing the interaction of the five important characters: the mother and father, a daughter, a young son, and an old sick aunt. Shortly after the beginning of the...

Author: By Peter E. Quint, | Title: Pather Panchali | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

What first visitors saw, as they walked through the newly opened doors, was a huge, sudden space that swirled breathtakingly to the high dome. This, they recognized, was a building whose closed outer face deliberately belied the soaring drama of its interior. "It's like the Vati can," exclaimed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Last Monument | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

He sat in his private cubicle Friday night, staring at the cork wall and then plunged headlong into the gray pamphlet marked Courses of Instruction offered by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. "Hmm, well now," he mused, "like any dutiful junior gov major, I shall take Gov 106a, The...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: Blue Noon | 9/29/1959 | See Source »

As his outposts crumpled, 39-year-old Brigadier General Amkha Soukhavong, the Laotian army's regional commander, sat on the porch of his headquarters in Samneua City, peeling litchi nuts and staring morosely at the mildewed Roman Catholic church across the street. For French-trained General Amkha, who still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LAOS: Over the River | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

Walking fast, the bird man moved through the neighborhood, in and out of driveways and over lawns, flapping the aluminum cricket bats together, not looking where he was going, but staring piercingly into the trees. The starlings stared back. The bird man kept the bats banging, every so often used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bird Scotcher | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

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