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...then, as Psychologist Harold Grier McCurdy relates in this fragmentary but fascinating case history of an infant prodigy, this quick bright thing came to confusion in a spiritual tragedy that culminated in one of the grimmer mysteries of modern letters...
...author who in 71 years has published only 27 stories and one novel can scarcely be considered a major writer; and that little old white-haired lady is one of the grimmer misanthropes of 20th century literature. Clearly, Author Porter requires reappraisal, and that reappraisal will doubtless be provoked by the publication of this volume: the first complete collection of her long and short stories-among them four never published before...
Clearly, such unsettling prospects would not even be countenanced in the Krernlin were it not for yet a grimmer vista already looming. That vista is a continuing turnabout in the Soviet growth rate, whose longtime double-figure performances led Nikita Khrushchev as recently as 1961 to assure the world that the U.S.S.R. would over take the U.S. by 1970 as the world's mightiest economy. It has been slowing down ever since. Last week Moscow reported that industrial output grew at 7.1%, a sizable figure for a mature economy but the lowest in Russia since 1946. And each year...
Botching the Revolution. Nowhere is this kind of history produced in greater or grimmer volume than the present-day U.S., where a not-too-untypical Ph.D. candidate will write on "The Dairy Industry in Wisconsin Between 1875 and 1885." ("He must have covered the subject teat by teat," groaned a professor.) Though there are now an average 15 Ph.D.s laboring over each year of American history, historical interpretations have not noticeably improved. Pseudoscientific systems are no substitute for imagination. A case in point, writes Smith, is the American Revolution...
...tired of your newspaper with its lockout and stall-in reports? Tired of TV's British satire and hillbilly corn? Of your local theaters' grim neorealism and grimmer (at least in performance) Shakespeare? Then Pinafore is the thing for you. The Gilbert and Sullivan Players are offering a relaxing amateur evening at Agassiz, and I had a rollicking good time...