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...verse is lively, flowing, and unusually beautiful at times. The best way to demonstrate Mr. Alfred's fine amalgam of poetry and speech is to quote:"Can't you remember Troy? The men dead in the streets, the flesh of hips forced up by the hard cobbles? Law died with them. . . The image of Troy's order lies decaying in over twenty-thousand dead men's eyes." Sometimes, Mr. Alfred injects humor which heightens the tone of the tragedy; Cassandra says, "Lift that thing off him." "He's naked ma'am." "Is that what you call Greek reason." His transitions...

Author: By Jonathan O Swin, | Title: Agamemnon | 2/7/1953 | See Source »

...philosopher turned lawyer turned administrator. He writes, sails a yawl, plays a piano, composes light operettas and teaches Humanities 4. Perhaps his breadth of interest is fitting, for as the new Chairman of the Committee on General Education, Rhinelander is at the helm of a diverse amalgam of courses that is the College's most important educational experiment of the generation...

Author: By Milton S. Gwirtzman, | Title: Phillip H. Rhinelander | 10/18/1952 | See Source »

...started to move. One was Hamilton Fish, former Representative and tag line of Roosevelt's famous ban "Martin, Barton and Fish." He announced he would enter the New York Senatorial race on an amalgam of the American and Constitutional party slates. Other support blossomed in Florida and Connecticut...

Author: By Milton S. Gwirtzman, | Title: Birth of a Party II | 10/3/1952 | See Source »

...This amalgam of corn and cleavage has been handsomely directed by Josef...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 12, 1952 | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

...amalgam of the Mundt-Nixon, Mundt-Ferguson, McCarran, and Kilgore proposals, the McCarran Act provides for the registration of all Communists and officers of Communist groups. It requires these groups to label all their property and literature "disseminated by a Communist organization." It bars members of such organizations from obtaining passports as well as from working for the government or in defense plants...

Author: By Rudolph Kass, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 11/2/1950 | See Source »

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