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At the close of the ceremonies, Mr. Greene spoke in terms of an analogy which the debate had brought to his mind. He likened the debaters to combattants of old whose arguments were their lances, whose victory was the smile of a fair lady, the smile of Athene. Instead of...
Vridar Hunter, agonized self-student, was given something else to think about when his wife killed herself because he planned to leave her for another woman. Vridar tormented himself with remorse, thought long of suicide and even made abortive attempts. He fled from Chicago, where he had been studying for...
Books, talk, drink, women he tasted greedily but skeptically, came to the conclusion that self-love was the myopia that blinded nearly everyone he knew, including himself. In spite of his intelligentsiac friends he decided that intelligence was not a menace: it was simply not being used. Because the Communists...
THE UNPOSSESSED - Tess Slesinger - Simon & Schuster ($2.50). Last week a new novelist burst, like a modern Pallas Athene, full-panoplied from the aching head of Uncle Sam. Critics who always lift an eyebrow at such new arrivals noted a few chinks in her armor, but to the gaping crowd of...
Onetime Senator James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. of New York was the plume in the Wet Athene's helmet last week. He cried: "Senator Fess . . . cannot see what is going on in this country. Tears dim his sight. . . . Does the Senator think we can carry Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York...