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...before (History, Poetry and Philosophy, Fiction, etc.), they compose a fluid series with a little more contemporary glitter. This Sunday Historian Allan Nevins will have a chance to link up Herodotus' History (of how the Greeks stood off the Persians) with World War II. On Dec. 14 a classic of conservatism, Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, will be taken up along with a classic of revolution, Tom Paine's The Rights...
Though it lacks brilliance and intensity, the production has drive, clarity, continuity. Director Webster has made a play of it as well as a classic. Its smoky, night-lighted horrors are good theater, if nothing more. It even gets past such a technical bogey as the three witches by making them keep their distance...
...nature of that framework. When molten glass is allowed to cool slowly enough to crystallize, it loses its transparency. Cooled more rapidly, it remains clear. So science has assumed that it is amorphous, a patternless collection of molecules, constituting a sort of stiffened liquid. In fact the classic definition of glass is "a liquid whose rigidity is great enough to enable it to be put to certain useful purposes." Dr. Pincus believes that the structure of glass is neither amorphous nor crystalline but somewhere between, with its atoms symmetrically arranged in patterns...
...Society, which first got chamber music on the air. Lately he has been doing a series of programs on American composers, and WQXR has broadcast "salon swing." For the serious plunge into jazz (tentative date: January) he plans a single program series in which he will use recordings of classic and modern jazz
...Harlow had a close-knit starting team that had been practically the same for every game since Cornell. On the basis of their showing against Skip Stahley's squad, three men, Burgy Ayres, Greely Summers, and Jack Morgan, may unexpectedly be in for the opening whistle in the coming classic...