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...Wolff does not deny tutoring altogether, but he insists that his clients have covered the assigned material and want to "supplement" it; have neglected their studies "through no fault of their own"; or else "are temporarily unable to do their college work without this guidance...
...Eleanor Roosevelt's other capacities. She is out of bed at dawn's crack, doing setting-up exercises, swimming, or riding her old mare Dot. She eats like an ostrich: anything, everything. After breakfast she answers mail, dictates her column, which has not once been tardy through fault of hers. A somewhat shrill yet mellow chortle is the tune of her whole day. (She has been taking voice lessons to improve on the radio...
...HOLY TERROR-H. G. Wells-Simon & Schuster ($2.75). Most of H. G. Wells's 80 books have pictured the shape of things to come; if nobody knows what the future holds, it is not his fault. In The Holy Terror he sees the same old Wellsian future: the final World War, a world dictatorship, and at last, off in the misty distance, the World State. Many an oldster bores mankind about the past; in The Holy Terror, Wells manages to be dull about things that have not even happened...
With so much to recommend it, Christ in Concrete has one unfortunate fault-its occasional passages of impressionistic, Joycean rhetoric. But these passages are not structural. Without them, the book would be as solid as one of Author di Donato's brick walls...
...conclusion. I can only say that I am sorry that the Crimson took it upon itself to print such an obvious diatribe. The new show has its faults but few of them--I might almost say none of them--are the fault of its director. No, the "ungrateful criticism" is by no means a reflection on anyone but the reviewer. David C. Rivinus '40 (Ed. Note: The reviewer was unacquainted with Mr. Lilley...