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...praise to TIME [Nov. 5] for its portrait of "The Younger Generation." Doubtless some of them will take exception to their reflection in your mirror, but as one who has spent the greater part of his time over the past 30 years in attempting to understand successive younger generations and to interpret them to themselves, and who finds this present younger generation in many ways the most puzzling and interesting in the series, your article seems to me by all odds the ablest and truest analysis which I have seen. I wouldn't alter a phrase...
Barefoot in Athens (by Maxwell Anderson ; produced by the Playwrights Company) has Playwright Anderson once again raiding history for a hero. This time: Socrates.* It is not a very satisfactory sortie. Doubtless Socrates himself is partly to blame: however notable for dialogue, he was almost churlishly averse to drama. But Playwright Anderson is even more responsible. He has twisted Plato's Socrates into a symbol, thrust him into strange company, shown him off like a Hellenic quiz kid and, at moments, with quite unpoetic license, has wrenched him completely out of character and history out of focus...
...this animal are clearly pointed out in the proposed method of capturing him. The process starts when some bibulous old tribute to Harvard's greatness spots a good high school football player--and he will always spot the scholar-athlete as an athlete, not as a scholar. A check, doubtless a hasty one, with the principal or headmaster of the young man's school, to find out whether he can meet Harvard's academic requirements, represents the entire investigation of the lad as a scholar...
...Doubtless with the 23rd Regiment's casualties at Heartbreak Ridge in mind, General Van Fleet issued a long statement explaining-and justifying the cost of-his summer campaign of attacks while peace talks were under way. Since May 25, in what he called "the dimout war," the enemy had lost 188,000 men, he said. The summer battles had served to weaken the enemy, to improve the U.N.'s military posture, to school and season replacements, and above all, to ward off inertia...
Before The Great Caruso appeared in a theater, 100,000 albums of the operatic numbers used in the picture had been sold. The sale was doubtless helped by Lanza's technique of plugging his records and films like a disc jockey from the concert stage-an unorthodox practice that pains some traditionalists even more than his habit of acknowledging applause with the overhead handclasp of a prizefighter. Yet no one quite foresaw what a hit the movie would be. Some of MGM's top brass took a gloomy view on the theory that the U.S. public would...