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This article is adapted from a speech given by the author at a Sarah Lawrence conference on "The Future of Higher Education for Women." Although the Crimson reported this speech as an attack on Radcliffe, the author is actually concerned not with coeducation but with the independent woman's college, and mentioned Radcliffe only once, favorably. The printed version is indebted to many helpful comments made by participants in the Sarah Lawrence conference. its leaders. Usually this pattern is more or less hereditary, with people learning their roles by continual exposure since childhood to the prerequisite values and attitudes. Professional...
...fellow named Mitchell Wilson is the favorite American author over there. Have you ever heard of him? I never...
This sprawling novel sets out to give full-dress treatment to the founding of the state of Israel. Reaching from the first Zionist stirrings in 1881 to the Arab war of 1947, Author Uris packs his pages with arresting scenes. Leaky, spavined steamers, jammed to the scuppers with Jews, make the dangerous run to the Palestine beaches; murder gangs of Jews and Arabs hunt each other out in the sun-bleached hills; intrigue and chicanery fill the halls of the United Nations and the chancelleries of Europe; the innocent and the defenseless suffer and die more often than the clashing...
...Author Leon (Battle Cry) Uris, 34, spent two years and traveled 50,000 miles getting the facts for his story, and he relates it in a serviceable, exclamatory prose. But he has written a novel as well as history, and no amount of research can help him in his fiction. His hero, Ari Ben Canaan, has all the two-dimensional subtlety of a sheriff in a TV western; his heroine, Gentile Kitty Fremont, is so often petty-minded and petulant that some readers may suspect Author Uris of a bias against shiksas. Despite its partisan trimmings, Exodus in large measure...
...Volcanoes Above Us, by Norman Lewis. The unquiet sport of baiting Quiet Americans gains another fictional recruit as Author Lewis uses a Guatemalan setting to deliver a scurrilous poke at Uncle Sam below the banana belt...