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...Christ, the man, as a kind of supreme culture hero embodying every man's unending quest for his better self. At best noble in a pagan way, at worst blasphemous and sentimental, self-made religions are immune to true-false tests, and their devotees usually ignore the irony implicit in one of the play titles of Pirandello: Right You Are, if You Think...
Smashed Hopes. Clearly implicit was a threat to the throne itself, for there was no provision for a King in any of the vague federation schemes being promoted. Feverishly, Baudouin himself began summoning party leaders - including the Socialists - for urgent talks on the assumption that once the labor trouble ended, demands for federation would fade...
...swashbuckling, 2,000-line epic of Cortes in Conquistador to the modern morality play in J.B., MacLeish himself is tempted to an omnibus generalization on poetry: "'What is the meaning of all song?' Yeats asks himself, and answers, 'Let all things pass away.' " The implicit proviso is "except this poem," and MacLeish goes on to say: "To face the truth of the passing away of the world and make song of it, make beauty of it, is not to solve the riddle of our mortal lives but perhaps to accomplish something more." What is that evasive...
Congratulations on your review of the new movie Exodus. It is high time that the shabby portrayal of history implicit in the book was called to task, and it is unfortunate that this historical fallacy was re-created in the film...
This indecisive planning cannot be blamed entirely on the planners of Twentieth Century Week--such waverings between over-ambitiousness and over-conservatism are implicit in practically any such undergraduate enterprise. Nor are they fully responsible for the program's failure to attract wide-spread undergraduate interest. For they ran into serious trouble in attempting to raise funds and acquire whole-hearted support from the Harvard administration, causing them to narrow greatly the scope of their plans...