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...Jean-Paul Sartre by Eva Wolas; produced by New Stages, Inc.) reached Broadway from Paris via Greenwich Village. Produced in February by a Village group only founded in October, The Respectful Prostitute throve so well in a bandbox that it is now tackling the big time. There it may thrive, too, thanks about equally to skill and sensationalism...
...makes a business of killing rats (mostly with poison), does not believe that they will ever be exterminated. They are too smart. Traps are not much good, and news of poison seems to spread fast. At present, there are many more rats than people in the U.S. They thrive in any climate, on any kind of food. In the tropics they often nest in palm trees, descending at night to plunder the food stocks...
...Cobb and his fellow-hecklers had not been so absorbed in creating the kind of incident on which Communist propagandists thrive, he might have been able to hear the speakers and would thus have been saved from slanderous error. The Czech coup served as final proof that the Communists will destroy civil liberties even in a nation with democratic traditions; Saturday's meeting demonstrated that Communists are not by any means the only enemies of these liberties. In this at least, Mr. Cobb et al are their spiritual allies. Edgar M. Rubin...
...Research. Johns Hopkins, which is about the same age as Bowman, has known prophets before. It was one of the first U.S. universities to emphasize graduate research. Harvard's crusty President Charles W. Eliot had to admit that his own graduate school, "started feebly in 1870, did not thrive until . . . Johns Hopkins forced [it to]." To the tidy campus on the edge of Baltimore went Poet Sidney Lanier, Viscount Bryce, and James Russell Lowell to teach or lecture. Woodrow Wilson, John Dewey and Walter Reed studied there. Its medical school, which often overshadowed the rest of it, also...
...Schuman's job was not only to deflate prices; he had to deflate the grand illusions, the bitterness, the suppressed (and sometimes open) hysteria, and indeed the sense of frustrated tragedy which France had acquired in three wars and on which both the Communists and De Gaulle thrive. Schuman had to show France-if he could-how she could sink gently, down to the solid reality of earth...