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...least half the 20,000 citizens of the Italian town of Sezze are Communists or Communist sympathizers. Last week, a tenth of them joined in a moving re-enactment of the sufferings of Christ. For the first time since the war, Sezze had decided to revive the passion play that had been its tradition for over 700 years. Unlike the world-famed performance at Oberammergau, Sezze's passion play is performed in the streets of the village by 1,500 of its citizens...
Flashing Arguments. But John Erskine was a good deal more than a performer. He had a passion for great books and great ideas ("Every gentleman owns books," he once snorted at a student) and that was what he wanted to pass on to his students. And so, one day in 1917, at an "otherwise dull faculty meeting," he proposed a revolutionary plan. He wanted to start a special course on the greatest books of Western civilization. It was not to be a course of lectures with knowledge served up predigested by the professor. It was to be a series...
Pulp novels have a fast turnover, among a limited group. Titles at Felix's stay about the same: "Virgin With Butterflies," "Reckless Virgin," "Passion Girl." The man in charge explained that a customer for these usually bought a serious journal as well. "A man comes in and first he buys the New Republic or Time," he said. "Then he stands around and looks at these for a while, and finally he buys one. When he goes out, the New Republic is on top." As for Radcliffe: "Frankly, I think the girls are just bashful...
Gentle Dr.Albert Einstein has a learned complaint to make in the current Scientific American.* In language shrouded in darkling mathematics, he takes modern physicists to task for what he considers their lack of interest in the greatest problem still unsolved. "There exists a passion for comprehension," writes Dr. Einstein, "just as there exists a passion for music. That passion is rather common in children, but gets lost in most people later on." ¶Present-day physicists, Einstein believes, are so busy gathering facts about the innards of atoms that they have no time for the great, round, four-dimen sional...
...personal life," he keeps repeating, "is nobody's business but my own." His passion for privacy is one of the things that has made him unpopular with gossip-hungry sportwriters and fans. It has also helped conceal an extremely generous nature. On the road he is known to waiters and bellhops as a "buck-tipper" and a soft touch. He divided $1,000 of his 1946 World Series check among the clubhouse helpers. He sends his mother upwards of $7,000 a year, likes to visit shut-in children in hospitals, provided there are no reporters around...