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Dean Monro's recent proposal that universities join in setting up a project for recruiting gifted students with little educational opportunity makes a good deal of sense. As he says, the present admissions system is wasteful and insensitive, and, although no miracle will be wrought by Monro's plan, it shows an understanding of the fact that a truly democratic scholarship program will have to help motivate students as well as hand them checks after they've been accepted...
This is not a question of dealing with "our enemies, the Communists," or of being calm and practical in bargaining with "enemy powers"--in this crisis the only enemy is self-wrought destruction. It is a situation which ought to shock us and to force upon us the recognition of a kinship, of a responsibility which is shared by all who have the power to push the button, and of a catastrophe which will be shared universally. There is an urgency about the condition of the present world which leaves no room for personal advantage or for the personal...
Call of the Blood. In this new edition, Photographer Evans supplies a graceful memoir of James Agee, later movie critic for TIME and the Nation, who died suddenly in 1955, when only 45, before the publication of his finely wrought Pulitzer-prizewinning novel, A Death in the Family. In 1936, says Evans, black-haired, husky Jim Agee seemed younger than his 27 years and still retained "a faint rubbing of Harvard and Exeter." Though likable and above average as an individual, he "didn't look much like a poet, an intellectual, an artist, or a Christian, each of which...
...lost when a World War II rescue plane was unable to take off). Although his battle to acquire "enough diversification so that my sons [four surviving] wouldn't have to scrap with each other" eventually made him the producer of everything from badminton birds to wrought iron. O'Neil kept tabs on the bosses of his 46 far-flung subsidiaries and affiliates with the frequent query, "Why the hell aren't you fellows making more money?" Last year his General Tire, which netted $620 in 1915, made $26 million on a $703 million gross...
...perhaps to make a delicate and fragile moment perceptible for thousands in New York's Winter Garden Theatre. (It was the ability to communicate throughout that cavernous theater that was one of the noteworthy excellences in Jean-Louis Barrault's production of Claudel's Christophe Colombe, an exceedingly fine-wrought work...