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Perhaps Christina Stead's latest book should not be reviewed, but exorcised. It purports to be a novel of British working-class life, but its overt socialist propaganda and its covert hints of dark doings in sex and some sort of spiritualism make it the queerest mixture of the publishing season-a marriage of those diverse London oddballs, Karl Marx and Joanna Southcott, the hysteric cultist who died in 1814 after announcing that she would give birth to a second Prince of Peace...
...century, the Rothschilds, Montagus and Samuelses made Jews a force to reckon with in British finance. Today, 40 members of Parliament are Jews, as well as 61 knights and 20 peers of the realm. Although Jews are expected to congregate at their own country clubs, there is comparatively little overt anti-Semitism in Britain-one of the few nations where Jews were never forced to cluster together in ghettos...
...times, one began to lose track of the development and growth of themes but this could be entirely laid at the door of technical inadequacies on the part of the performers. In addition the repeated fugal entrances of the chorus in the Credo and Gloria were, through their overt pompousness, a built-in weakness in the performance which was a tremendous accomplishment for an amateur group...
Despite the closeness of the new extension to Harvard and Radcliffe buildings, the University has put up no overt opposition to the plan. It has privately asked, however, that the University buildings be protected. The Harvard Planning office contemplates a study of the area to determine the type of construction necessary to shield the buildings; apparently, little work on the study has been done this summer. The start of construction is net planned before...
...overt issue was the attempt by William Fulbright's Foreign Relations Committee to gain representation on the Senate's special CIA watchdog committee (TIME, May 27). The real question, however, was whether Fulbright would succeed in flouting Richard Russell, chairman both of the watchdog group and the powerful Armed Services Committee, and uncrowned king of the Senate's inner Establishment...