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Besides his injunction ordering the tutoring school to refrain from future violations of the copyrights on these books, Judge Brewster awarded damages totaling $1,000 which were divided among the four publishing firms...
...choice of a play gave them superb raw material with which to work. The young English poets, Auden and Isherwood, have tried to portray "the universal tragedy of man in a man-made world." By a simple and polyphonic prose, verse of varied complexity, a tragic chorus, lyric refrain and dream device, they have welded a series of bizarre climaxes into a tremendously effective play. Philosophic and graphic elements were so intermingled as to provide the necessary portions of entertainment with a message so pungent. Incomprehensible as that message was at times, it only served as a challenge to dive...
Brilliant scenes combine these elements. The poignant refrain of "Mr. and Mrs. A.," the futile suburbanites, which haunts the action like some prophetic spectre, and its antistrophe driven home by a clique of worldly British moguls, give the drama superb and bitter satire. Never during the most intense moment in the hero's fortunes are we allowed to forget that the adventure of the mountain is but a facet, a link in the pattern of the tragedy of Everyman. Through the dramatic medium of poetry, Auden and Isherwood give a vivid universality to their characters...
Damages totaling $1,000 were awarded to the four publishing firms, and the tutoring bureau was ordered to refrain from future violations of the copyright on these books...
Authorities yesterday urged students to refrain from smoking at the Indoor Athletic Building meeting, since cigarette stubs will damage the varnished floor...