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Inside the bones of a disciplined character, Dibelius has circulating a lively and urbane wit, a shrewd judgment of character, and a sense of realism that generally gets the better of his Prussian stubbornness. He gives his young pastors one cardinal maxim: "You must love men as they are, and not wait until they change into what you want them to be." But, as a man who has used the same tailor in Berlin's Leipziger Strasse for the last 50 years, he shows spurts of impatience with people whose habits clash with his. When a clergyman once pulled...
...Little Madeleine, by Mrs. Robert Henrey. Recollections of a girlhood in Paris during the early part of the century; a fine mixture of gentleness and Gallic realism (TIME...
...Humanities courses are included in the three new upper-level offerings. Humanities 121, Contemporary Christian Thought and Philosophy, will be a spring term half course taught by John D. Wild, professor of Philosophy. The course will be a critical study of religious thought and its affiliated philosophy, emphasizing realism, naturalism, and existentialism...
...very first try at the stage, when she was a college freshman, Rosalind Russell confidently expected and got the leading role. Cast as St. Francis Xavier, she was required in one scene to whip herself with a knotted rope. She performed the act with such energy and realism that "they all cried and I was invited to do more plays." She adds: "It was marvelous-you got excused from everything...
Camino Real is Playwright Tennessee Williams' most agitated protest and least effective play. In it Williams is in flight, more than ever before, from theatrical realism. At the same time, he is appalled as never before by reality itself. Using the gaudiest of theater tricks-florid language, Hellzapoppin explosions, surrealist juxtapositions-he has shattered the familiar outer shell of life to reveal decadence and rottenness within. But in doing so, he has partly succumbed as a writer to what as a moralist he would expose...