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...Review's range of interest is wide, running all the way from U.S. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter ("Law and Order") to the late Humorist Robert Benchley ("The Typical New Yorker"). The Review was one of the first U.S. publications outside of little poetry magazines to publish the singular verses of French Poet Saint-John Perse-who went on to win the Nobel Prize in 1960. The current anniversary issue features a political reminiscence by Dean Acheson and a study of Anglo-American relations by Historian Denis Brogan...
...seventh book. The Cuban Story (Braziller; $4.50), Herbert Matthews recalls his 1957 interview as a singular journalistic achievement. It is about all that Newsman Matthews can be proud of in his continued coverage of Cuba. Dazzled from the start by the dashing revolutionary ("I was moved, deeply moved, by that young man"), Matthews fell into the trap that everywhere awaits the unwary reporter: he let emotional bias suspend his judgment. In his eyes. Castro became a hero of whom Matthews can still write today, as he does in The Cuban Story: "I could never bring myself to condemn Fidel Castro...
...sense of grandeur to the opera's five scenes. American Soprano Mary Costa, who played Ninette, sang beautifully but seemed lost in the schmalz-larded story. Only the heroine's quadroon mother, Cleo, superbly sung by Contralto Irene Dalis, took on the dimensions of life-a singular achievement while coping with some embarrassing lyrics: "Love had fled from your white heart, but my black one still lives in its hell...
...requirement is an aggravation not because it demands exercise but because it requires adherence to a group of rules which are inconvenient and annoying. It represents the same kind of paternalism as compulsory chapel and censorship, and the fruit of that singular reasoning which believes that everything right about the College is the result and justification of the things that are wrong...
Every major Revolution polarizes observers into partisans, but it seems a singular power of the Cuban Revolution to excite in its onlookers a deep sense of participation. As the body of literature devoted to Castro's victory grows, more and more books appear implicitly devoted to the impact of the Revolutionary struggle on the author's thought processes and outlook...