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...must be valorous but subservient, and he has little use for democracy: "Freedom leads to equality, and equality to stagnation-which is death . . . The multitude is never free . . ." The happiest men are to be found in "deserts^ monasteries." It soon becomes apparent, in fact, that Saint-Ex wanted the passion for God and love to flourish in a social framework which would shortly make violent rebels of most men of spirit...
...Truman. To fill ailing Lew Douglas' shoes, Harry Truman last week picked an envoy of another sort. Quiet, retiring, 65-year-old Walter Sherman Gifford, a Yankee Republican, began his career as a $10-a-week clerk in Western Electric, by a knack for figures and a passion for efficiency, rose to the eminence of chairman of the board of American Telephone & Telegraph, from which he retired last December. His appointment underlined two facts: in some quarters, diplomacy is less politics than big business; Mr. Truman once again had rejected a political appointment for one that would add prestige...
...conjunction with the Boston Symphony, the Glee Club will also put on the lit. Matthew Passion on March 23 and 24, and then will travel to Washington to entertain on Pan-American Day. Returning to Boston, they will present the Berlioz Requiem at the final Thursday night rehearsal at Symphony Hall...
Director Michael Curtiz sparks The Breaking Point's slambang action with realistic, underplayed sequences of growing tension. Besides stinging melodrama, the film offers some unusual dividends. Its love story involves the hero with-of all people-his wife, and it is played with a passion that U.S. movies never seem to find in married couples who have school-age children. In the other woman (Patricia Neal), who gets nowhere with Morgan, the script fashions an acid, quip-studded portrait of a smart tart on the make...
...ardent Tory, in real life, would consider too good to be true. But Parade's End, like many a fine work of fiction, is not intended to be literally true to life. It is first & foremost an artist's dream, always larger than life, more drenched with passion and drama. Often tortuously long, always intensely complicated by the mingling of thought and action, it is likely to be too much of a Kanchenjunga for most readers to struggle up. But those who make the grade will find-after a respite in which to get their breath back-that...