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...discovered" Monty Clift jerking sodas or selling shoes. Twenty-eight years old this month, he has spent half his life in the theater ( The Skin of Our Teeth, The Searching Wind, There Shall Be No Night). He is that rare bird with both screen personality and acting talent. Rarer still for a newcomer, he is getting his own way about contracts. He refused to play pretty juveniles or mannikins, and the dread of being "owned" by Hollywood made a seven-year contract no more inviting than the seven-year itch...
Last week the answer from all continents was a fatuous yes. The answer missed the point; Gandhi was a rarer human being-a good man. He disturbed people by his goodness. He called himself "a Hindu of Hindus," and yet he put many a professing Christian to shame. "The spirit of the Sermon on the Mount," wrote the man who fitted the rubrics of the Beatitudes more comfortably than most Christians, "competes almost on equal terms with the Bhagavad-Gita for the domination of my heart...
Angel in the Wings (music & lyrics by Carl Sigman & Robert Hilliard; produced by Marjorie & Sherman Ewing) is that rare thing these days, an intimate revue; and that even rarer thing, a gay one. Injecting the gaiety are: 1) Grace Hartman, 2) Paul Hartman, 3) Hank Ladd. The three of them are the whole show; or rather, and most unfortunately, they aren't. Included also are some pretty dreary gags and skits, and some fairly routine songs & dances...
...year in which lovers of history and biography could add a few books to their libraries, but good fiction, poetry and criticism were even rarer than in arid 1946. There was no U.S. novel as good as last year's Pulitzer Prizewinning All the King's Men, no new poet as gifted as Robert Lowell, whose Lord Weary's Castle had also won a Pulitzer Prize. Many publishers said frankly that they couldn't take chances with untried talent: their production costs were 75% higher than in 1941, and they needed surefire books. Quality, which...
...present trend in our universities . . . may not be responsible for the fact that we can today count our outstanding presidents on the fingers of one hand. ... I should place educational leadership ahead of mere administrative ability; the latter can be secured, it can be bought. The former is far rarer. . . . What reason have we to anticipate that men whose aim has been the winning of elections, or increasing the earnings of their stockholders, or even defeating the enemy in a series of bloody battles, will automatically sympathize with these ideals of a university-complete freedom of research, untrammeled freedom...