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Readers who note the comments on the English spirit, English genius, character, history which run through Maurois' books may feel that he says things that most Englishmen would like to hear, but which their own writers seldom point out. With a great gift for simplification, Maurois makes complex individuals seem transparent, reduces difficult and obscure periods in their lives, over which scholars still debate, to matter-of-fact and readily understandable situations. In Prophets and Poets he has written of nine English writers, beginning with Kipling and ending with Katherine Mansfield. In an attempt to reveal the underlying philosophy...
...Harvard Dramatic Club produced Edward Eager's "Pudding Full of Plums" last night at Brattle Hall, and will continue to produce it until Friday night. The play was supposed to be amusing and it was amusing. As the only complex character in the play Miss Lois Hall was successful in a manner of speaking. She delivered her lines with feeling, but the continuous tenseness of her voice lent an unsought atmosphere to certain moments in the first and second acts...
...materials are not the best in the tiny arena where the gigantic crush is finally focused, steel is likely to bulge like butter. Squeezed by 300 tons per sq. in., some of the contraction of a substance is due to a shrinkage of the atoms themselves. The complex atom of cesium shrinks most of all metals. Of 48 metals under high pressure, 39 become better conductors of electricity. Iron grows softer, glass harder. Squeezed water turns solid (''ice") in five different forms, one of which does not melt until heated to nearly 212°F. Under the increased...
...felt appeared in last month's Catholic University Bulletin. Calmly running the risk of scandalizing other Catholics, Bishop Ryan's able young assistant, Rev. Dr. Maurice S. Sheehy, labeled the retiring Rector "intolerant," "restless," "indiscreet," "inhuman" and possessed of a "superiority complex." Excerpts from his editorial...
...Bishop Ryan is a most intolerant man. That at first glance may seem a severe indictment. . . . He was never intolerant, however, of real scholarship and earnest effort but merely of slipshod methods. . . . Allied with his intolerance, Bishop Ryan possessed a superiority complex. This dreadful sounding affliction was in no sense personal. . . . His authority as Rector of the University was vigorously exercised to support 'his consciousness of the superiority of Catholic culture...