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...weighty oaken doors of the Norman church of St. Bartholomew in Orford, England swung open with a groan, and out ran a small boy wearing the head of a mouse. After him tumbled a lion, a camel, an owl and an ass. Their capers among the tombstones scarcely drew a second glance from the local citizens, for everybody recognized them as the star performers of the Aldeburgh Festival's current star attraction: Benjamin Britten's eagerly awaited new music drama, Noye's Fludde...
...curious observer, not a soldier. This modern translation by the late Professor William H. D. Rouse (the Iliad and the Odyssey) marks another important addition to the ancient classics that are being turned into briskly readable, contemporary English by such able writers as Robert Graves (The Golden Ass of Apuleius. Lucan's Pharsalia), Rolfe Humphries (Ovid's Metamorphoses), Moses Hadas (An Ethiopian Romance by Heliodorus), Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald (Sophocles' Theban plays), Stanley Alexander Handford (Caesar's Gallic Wars...
...gathereth gold for the Department of Internal Revenue and hath no fun is a sounding ass and a tinkling idiot." Thus, wittily jumbling his '"Biblical passages, Madison Avenue's Charles Hendrickson Brower, 56, president of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborne, last week summed up what is wrong with the U.S. salesman, and perhaps the whole U.S. economy. Adman Brower told the National Sales Executives' convention in Washington that Americans in general and salesmen in particular have forgotten that work can be fun-and so they are not working hard...
...Canadian press and radio picked up the scent, and all Cobalt began getting into the act. "The man's an ass -a typical Prussian,'' growled Druggist Frederick Shaw. "What would happen if everybody came out and said just what they thought, like he does?" Last week Pastor Wipprecht defended himself before the school board, was reinstated on condition that he teach religion without mentioning sex. "If I am not to be allowed to teach the Seventh Commandment," he said, "I shall have to quit. And how I shall do that without using the word...
...philosophical faculty of Columbia Univ., to whom I referred previously, there are--to mention only a few--such men as Dr. Hermann J. Muller, professor of zoology at the Univ. of Indiana, Nobel Laureate in medicine (genetics), now president of the American Humanist Association (A.H.A.); Dr. Chauncey D. Leake, Ass't Dean of the Medical School at Ohio State University, now vice-president of the A.H.A.; Dr. George Axtelle, professor of education at New York University; Dr. Harold A. Larrabee, professor of philosophy at Union College; and the Rev. Edwin H. Wilson, pioneer in the organizational development of Humanism...