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...attempting to beat the so-called Twentieth Century Responsibility. Common-law marriages are not a means used by some Southern Negroes to avoid financial and legal responsibilities. Such marriages have their roots in the old slave society of the South and can be understood only in their proper historical context...
Reiss finds that one of the Program's most important aspects is that it puts University students in a different and new context in the Boston community. "It presents to all classes of the educated and uneducated a new slant on Harvard. Students show the city another dimension of themselves. Moreover, a gradual growth of the volunteer idea to other colleges seems entirely likely," he believes...
...selected portion, a preliminary philosophical comparison of the art of several cultures, is fully palatable to the casual reader by virtue of his immensely exciting style. While the editor has made an admirable journalistic coup in obtaining the selection, its brevity perhaps leaves Malraux out of the Review's context. Close perusal of the text and accompanying photographs, however, is richly rewarding...
Basically, reviewing a piece of paper is not going to change world power politics. The Charter's text has meaning only within a context--the context of world conditions. By trying to postpone Charter review for three years, instead of one, the U.S. is merely putting off a problem that may well become more acute as each year passes...
Just as Joan has been put in an American context to heighten her joyful spirit, so the other characters have been adapted with varying degrees of success, however. Boris Karloff is a restrained and very effective Cauchon. While he is sympathetic, the role demands an unwavering conception of duty which permits little new interpretation. Theodore Bikel, as Robert de Beauricourt, is properly rowdy but perhaps a victim of the incongruity of French and American vulgarity. His almost Prussian manner may be an attempt to breach the gap, but it is an inadequate one. If Christopher Plummber had rendered Warwick American...