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...insuperably civil art. Though the book is known to schoolboys merely as a grand ghost story, it is experienced by mature readers as a demonological document of shuddery profundity. Some of that profundity is sacrificed to saleability in this film, which derives partly from the book, partly from William Archibald's stage version of the book (TIME, Feb. 13, 1950). But if the picture is journeyman James, it is also pitapatational entertainment, the most sophisticated scare show since Diabolique...
...prestigious Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory, vacated by the announced retirement of Archibald MacLeish, will probably not be filled within the next two years, according to W. J. Bate, Chairman of the Department of English...
...found Martin Kilson's study of single-party governments most interesting; it is a concise explanation of the authoritarian single-party system, which, the author rightly concludes, "will become a general pattern in African states." A second most interesting contributing is the article on African law, by Boston lawyer Archibald McColl, which, like Elliot Berg's survey of American industry in Africa, presents hard facts. Jeffrey Butler's article on Africa's new leadership suffers most from pious generalization--e.g. "the quality of leadership will continue to be of crucial importance...
...jingly sentimentality I award that the 1961 Archibald MacLeish prize, a brass loving cup inscribed "Blow on the coal of the heart...
Kaplan will become Royall Professor of Law, a position held by Archibald Cox prior to his appointment this winter as Solleitor General of the United States...