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Chosen Nation. What does it take to build an empire? Will to power? Greed? Not in De Riencourt's book. Historically, the true empire builder, he thinks, is motivated by "an idealistic longing," a faith in universal law, a passion for a "common culture." He is more in the spirit of a missionary than of Genghis Khan. De Riencourt quotes Senator Albert J. Beveridge of Indiana speaking half a century ago: "God has made us the master organizers of the world to establish system where chaos reigns. He has marked the American people as his chosen nation to finally...
Biographer Allen Andrews, a British freelance writer, has sized up both Frewen and the times delightfully. He is right to point out that though other adventurers have enriched both themselves and vast territories with wilder schemes, they are perhaps less interesting as people. Cecil Rhodes, the empire builder, died leaving Rhodesia and the Kimberly Mines. Frewen, an empire bungler, left only splendid material for a loser's biography...
MINNESOTA THEATER COMPANY, Minneapolis. The three opening productions, Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, John Arden's study of political dissent, Serjeant Musgrave's Dance, and The Master Builder, Henrik Ibsen's treatise on creative genius, rotate through August. Bertolt Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui opens Aug. 6, and Merton of the Movies, by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly, joins the repertory Sept...
...wheels for Los Angeles or with a twelve-volt battery in Chicago and a six-volt battery in Philadelphia. I hope that more articles will educate the public to problems such as codes, rising labor costs, mortgage markets, land prices and many others faced by the builder today...
Jacqueline Grennan, D.H.L., president of Webster College. A symbol of forward-looking Catholicism, she is a builder of bridges: between Church and Academy, between precedent and experiment, between idea and reality...