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...from deploring that "handwriting was becoming a lost art" [TIME, Feb. 10], many outstanding present-day psychologists and psychiatrists feel that the script portrays accurately the writer's character traits, being conditioned by the complexities of his personality. As a result of many investigations within the last two decades, a whole technique has been built around this phenomenon in the form of scientific handwriting analysis, which is considered among the most exact projective methods in order to determine character structure...
Even strangers to the field, watching to affable, silver-haired historian establish connections between the cold facts of time past and the alive, present-day ideas that spring from them, feel that here is a born historian. Actually, Professor Brinton came to Harvard in 1915 from his home in Connecticut(where he was born in 1808), wavering between English and History. "But English A decided that question-it scared me off," he says, a touch ruefully...
...confusion in social theories such as progressive education and in our personal ways of life "makes us distrust all institutions, and even ourselves," he asserted, calling the manner in which present-day businessmen "compartmentalize" their lives "a typical middle-class evasion of the issues...
...plans to invite not only businessmen and industrialists to speak at meetings, but also prominent labor-leaders and others equipped to present all sides of present-day social and economic problems...
...Holiday (book & lyrics by John Latouche; music by Duke Ellington; produced by Perry Watkins & John R. Sheppard Jr.) is "based on" John Gay's renowned and raffish 18th Century Beggar's Opera. The debt to Gay is not large. Beggar's Holiday has a present-day setting, a new book, new lyrics and new music. What it has kept is the general movement of the story, the principal low-life characters (one or two in name only) and the cheeky last-minute happy ending...