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...folded in Boston. A certain sense of remodeling, of altered stairs and corridors, of trapdoors inserted and windows removed, hangs over the play. But the builder's identity, whatever the stage or the style of construction, is never in doubt. Williams writes of life in a backward, bigoted Southern town, and of a young guitar-playing itinerant who arrives there. He becomes involved with its unhappy women, and as a result with its unreasoning men, to be chewed to death at last by its chain-gang bloodhounds. More intensively-amid daffy old ladies, a nymphomaniac outcast, knife-flashing bullies...
This is not an idea that has made much headway in Asia and Africa. With sublime self-confidence, backward peoples in a score of lands have seized upon the ballot as a kind of 20th-century witchcraft, a white man's juju which would solve all problems. In Kenya, where Africans were allowed to participate in Legislative Council elections for the first time last week, many a newly enfranchised voter consulted animal entrails as well as his conscience. In India the complex issues facing the world's largest democracy were being decided (see below) by an electorate which...
...said that "everyone who can afford to, attends university," but pointed out that the provinces award a large number of scholarships to backward classes, providing them with free education through the college level...
...five-star uniform, Fleet Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey, 74, momentarily dropped his affairs in his Manhattan offices, hopped over to Bayonne, N.J. to have his picture taken with an old friend, the aircraft carrier Enterprise, thereby giving many a veteran a disconcerting sensation of being jerked 15 years backward in time. The Navy has marked the Big E for the scrap heap, and Old Sailor Halsey, along with some 1,400 former men of the Big E, was trying to raise $350,000 to buy the carrier and convert it into a national relic...
Native Springs. Before the native springs of American radicalism were drained into the stagnant pool of the Communist Party, there were generations of hedging and ditching. Engels sadly noted that Americans were "practical" but tremendously backward in "theory." At first the Socialist movement in the U.S. was largely staffed by immigrants who had a sharper taste for theory, and the Socialist Labor Party of North America would have remained a "small, moribund, foreign-language sect" had not practical, native forces been stirring...