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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With a text that had been discussed with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, Nixon began by reviewing the 40-day world crisis. There had been "some observers of world affairs . . . the critics of despair and the prophets of doom," who had proclaimed a massive Soviet victory in the Middle East. These critics, Nixon believed, were taking "a shortsighted and, if I might respectfully say so, immature view of the issues." When Israel, Britain and France attacked Egypt, the world wondered whether the U.S. would stand by its principles, or because its friends were involved, would "conveniently look the other...
...LITERARY HERITAGE, by Van Wyck Brooks and Otto Bettmann (246 pp.; Dutton; $8.50), makes up for its uninspired text by providing a rich collection of 500 drawings and photographs that add life and interest to U.S. letters, from Ben Franklin to Robert Frost...
...Holt; $10), draws on the work of L. A. Huffman, who was perhaps the best of the photographers who tried to document the old West. Here are 124 splendidly direct and realistic pictures devoted to cowboy country and life in the '80s and '90s. Informative text, a fine piece of Americana...
...lies in Director Stephen Aaron's approach to the play. In searching for a way to present Hamlet to a modern audience, Aaron was led back to the customs of the Elizabethan stage. Eschewing most modern "conveniences," he uses no incidental music apart from that indicated in Shakespeare's text, has no trick lighting, and permits just one intermission. Even the set, which was designed by John Ratte, suggests the Globe Playhouse, since it consists of little more than two platforms connected by stairways. This setting, which is of course less complex than its Elizabethan model, presents its own problem...
...most effective teaching devices available to the University. It can give the student a chance to test his ideas on an interested and informed mind. It can give him an insight into the working of the scholarly process which he cannot readily attain through lectures and text-books. It can require him to articu-late his ideas and arrange his knowledge with a coherence which is seldom demanded by the one way techniques of papers and exams. Most of all, it can defeat the gamesman's glib use of words and facts to obscure his lack of real insight...