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...audience of moppets and grownups murmured as 2,700 stars winked in their proper places on the dim vault overhead, as the planets glowed, as the Milky Way streamed in soft splendor. A lecturer identified stars and constellations with a flashlight beam. As the projector moved on its complex nest of gears, aeons of astronomical time flashed by. Realizing that this was no idle frivolity but a magnificent glimpse of infinity, Charles Hayden was moved as he had rarely been moved before. Back in his Manhattan office, Mr. Hayden heard of plans to supply New York City with a planetarium...
...NEST OF SIMPLE FOLK-Sean O'Faolain-Viking...
...Phelan, as even those who know no Irish may pronounce Sean OTaolain's Gaelic name, is a new star in Erin's sky. Known to only a few U. S. readers by a book of short stories (Midsummer Night Madness), he should soon, if A Nest of Simple Folk gets the audience it deserves, be visible throughout at least one hemisphere. This big novel of classic Irish types is set firmly in the oldfashioned, solid novel tradition, earmarked neither by the violent realism nor the violent mysticism of modern Ireland's civil war of letters...
...Nest of Simple Folk's 398 sensitive, homegrown pages Author O'Faolain spreads with slow care the history of three generations of an Irish family, from 1854 to 1916. Since Ireland is going downhill, so does his family, but theirs is not a political story. Judith Foxe was what passed for a gentleman's daughter in those parts. When she married one of her father's tenants her father never spoke to her again. But Judith schemed to get her youngest son Leo raised to the noble status of gentleman and, by hook & crook, a better...
...these things are not entirely unfair, then it is time for someone to begin calling knaves knaves. With a courage, born as much of sincerity as of invulnerbility, Dean Holmes has clouted a hornets nest with a very short handled stick. He has not much of a solution to offer, but he has sensed the difficulty, of the American feels a keen desire to perpetuate the kind of politician which is his bane; there is no better, no surer way to do it than to leave in that politician's sticky fingers his educational system. TERTIUS...