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...Congratulations on the story of India-Pakistan [TIME, Oct. 27]. After reading this masterpiece of reporting, the people of America certainly have a better understanding of the age-old problems facing present-day India...
Something of Baudelaire is in every present-day neurotic whose longing for escape leads to lost weekends and the psychiatric ward. Baudelaire's own lost weekend lasted more than 20 years, but instead of cracking up, he never gave way finally to despair. In fact, he became its almost contemptuous familiar. The random reflections of his Intimate Journals reveal more than the great lyric poet of Fleurs du Mal (1857); they show the nature of the man who somehow dodged the inexorable shooting-down of the fugitive. The Intimate Journals, self-pitying and frequently obscure as they...
...absence of blocking also accounts for the comparative safety of the game. Though there was still the tendency to "pile-up." as in a rugby scrum, the scientific and often dangerous body-contact of present-day football had not yet arrived. Tackling was more a question of pulling a man down than of bringing him down...
Last week the dean of the Alley's songwriters, who never had more than two years' schooling, put a finger on the trouble. Said Irving Berlin: present-day songwriters are, or think they are, too sophisticated to write simple songs. One of Berlin's newest songs, Kate, which sounds very much like some of the 800 other songs he has written, is climbing up the best-seller lists. Annie Get Your Gun, featuring 15 songs he wrote, is still playing to standing-room-only crowds after a year and a half on Broadway. And White Christmas, Berlin...
...archetype of Prussian character and statecraft, "Old Fritz" inspired Goethe, has been almost adored by a long line of German historians. Carlyle, Macaulay and Lytton Strachey wrote of him with fascination and even with admiration. Present-day scholarship has little to add to the full-dress biographies now in existence, but British Historian Gooch, a master of all the sources, has strung the story together with authority...