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...writing down all that he had learned on his journey. Though he wrote several books (Faith of a Liberal, A Preface to Logic, etc.), he never felt he had quite finished his task. Until his death, he was tortured by the books still unwritten, "haunted by the things . . . left unsaid." Actually, he knew that his books, like his teaching, would probably provide the world with no pat solutions. They could only underline his constant faith in "keeping the windows open on the Beyond . . ." and a sort of decide-as-you-go "liberalism based on ... sad experience as well...
...remember in second-year Latin the story about Hercules that began: "Hercules was the son of the mortal maiden Alkmena who was visited by the God Jupiter?" That left a lot unsaid. M. Giradoux (through his translator S. N. Behrman) now says the rest. The fact that he really has little to say and says it with too many words does not particularly matter. It is a talky play, but the talk is nimble. The story itself is simple, little more than an extended practical joke. There are no memorable lines or take-home gags; it is rather an exercise...
...accustomed to novels that passionately beat generals over the head with the common soldier and intolerant whites with the oppressed Negro. For Author Cozzens has performed the far more courageous and more painful job of putting down ugly facts. Unsentimentally, grimly, he says out loud what is often left unsaid-that in the U.S. "the big majority may feel that a Negro is a human being all right; but when you add that they want to see him treated fairly, you're wrong . . . The big majority does not want to insult or oppress him; but [it] has, in general...
...adds that the Union was intended to fulfill the very functions now slated for the new Center and that "it didn't work." Then in an inkling of much that is left unsaid he notes the greater dignity of "spontaneous" fund-raising from a broad-based donor group capable of small contributions rather than what one alumnus calls the usual "browbeating of wealthy men" alone. The Student Activities Center is in Lowell's estimation so large an undertaking from the standpoint of soliciting money that it has assumed all the marks of complete impracticability...
...last week was a different kind of opera. Listeners found few tunes to whistle when they came away from Danton's Death, the new opera by Gottfried von Einem. But few could for get the sheer violence of Einem's orchestral onslaught on dictatorship. What was left unsaid by the orchestra was sung by the chorus, which Einem employed as Mussorgsky did in Boris Godunov, as the real protagonist of the drama. There were few arias, and most of them were drowned in the dissonant thunder from...