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...court-martial, "they'll know we asked the questions"; and in asking them, and simultaneously asking the audience to do some thinking, Time Limit! contrives a nice, new twist for a thriller. With the help of a good cast and production, it also provides much that is vibrant and tense. If the play has its shortcomings, the chief reason is the old have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too one. Time Limit! tries to be exciting and significant by turns, rather than the one by means of the other. A serious theme must often defer to a lurid plot...
...gallery windows. Experimenting with the stained glass medium, Jennerjahn often abandons the use of lead between the frames of color to get an unusual blend and softness of light. At other times he paints the glass instead of baking in the colors. This produces unusual designs to complement vibrant colors. Jennerjahn's painting tends to be academic. Where so much theory is involved there is hardly enough room for expression. The stained glass seems to be less forced and more alive...
...right on snorting and wrangling while they crouch on the floor to avoid what may crash through the windows. When one old boy claims St. Patrick for a Protestant, when another argues evolution, because monkeys, like men, are fond of beer, everything starts coming alive, expands, grows vibrant...
...Peking, Nenni took tea with Mao Tse-tung, addressed the Communists' Consultative Political Conference ("It is a scandal that this new, vibrant China has not been admitted to the United Nations"), talked mutual trade with Premier Chou Enlai, discussed Roman Catholicism with the self-styled "vicar general of Peking." Concluded Nenni: "Catholic missionaries in China can leave and return as they like," provided, of course, that they do not carry out "counterrevolutionary propaganda...
...read your Sept. 12 success story of the skinny kid from Bahia, one of the most vibrant that TIME has ever published ... it suddenly dawned on me that Lieut. Colonel...