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Brown speaks as a poet to another poet, Eberhart, and the subject is the common goal of the two--to attain universality of sympathy and expression. The goal is one which no poet has attained--there is a lingering but powerful hint in the poem's background of the author's realization that he may be doomed to failure in seeking it. But the poem is more an exhortation to achievement, in which the author incites himself and another to accomplish what previous poets have failed...
...Clayton, Mo., set up an elaborate experiment. Colleges were to admit without examination the graduates of 30 selected progressive high schools. Each of these graduates was to be paired, for comparison, with a graduate of a first-rate conventional school, of the same sex, race, age, intelligence, interests, family background...
Blackout (United Artists) gives U. S. cinemaddicts a view of what the British cinema has been up to since war began. Telling a conventional spy story against a background of contemporary England, it needles audiences by casually photographed scenes of the Royal Navy conducting its blockade, life in London during a bombing and blackout...
...critical estimate of the artistic value of the piece would require a greater knowledge of Chinese art than I have. It is impossible to give an intelligible and solid account of such a monument without understanding its symbolism, characters, and historical background. I suggest, however, that for these very reasons, some explanation of the monument and a translation of the inscription be provided by the University and placed in front of the piece...
...colors of this faded legend by putting it under the spotlight of today; turns it into a surrealistic cyclorama of human fate. In the foreground the seven deadly sins of Sloth, Gluttony, Envy, Lust, Avarice, Pride, Anger move like insatiable' ghouls through the golden haze of eternity. The background is left for the individual cyclorama-goer to fill...