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...think this is a pointer," said Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home triumphantly, "that we will do well in the autumn." At the very least, it was a pointer that a great many journalists and pollsters had been dead wrong about the Tories' political position. Defending four Conservative constituencies in by-elections this week, the party had been told by virtually everyone that it was in for trouble. At best, it was expected to hold the two safest of the seats, and some thought that the Tories might lose all four. Instead, Labor managed to win only...
...came to Harvard in the autumn of 1924, an unintimidated apprentice plumber in an expectant and receptive mood. My first impression, as I suppose is true of most new men who come to Cambridge from the Midwest, was a sense of the sanitation problems around me, illustrated by Harvard's old buildings and other evidences of sewerage difficulties of which I only vaguely conscious through my studies in plumbers' school. But my second impression was of my fellow workers--or at least the first group of them...
...Americans could point with pride to a reigning triumvirate in native playwriting--Tennessee Williams, Lillian Hellman, and Arthur Miller. Williams had produced two masterpieces, The Glass Menagerie and A Strcetcar Named Desire. Miss Hellman had recently followed a long series of carefully wrought works with her crowning achievement, The Autumn Garden. Miller had written a masterpiece in Death of a Salesman, and had just produced a near-masterpiece with The Crucible, which among other things threw a heavy and much-needed punch at Senator McCarthy...
...during her lifetime; when she died in 1949, not one of her works had been sold. Exhibitions since then reveal a painter who persistently stuck to the pursuit of color. In 35 oils, watercolors and drawings ranging from 1927 to 1949. her swirling brush paints up an explosion of autumn hues infused with light that magically illumines human figures. Through...
Last week NBC-having been pleased by a trial show broadcast last autumn-began a new weekly series of That Was the Week That Was in the U.S., produced by Leland Hayward and written by Robert Emmett and Gerald Gardner. It promised a lot: a live program full of uninhibited topical satire, laced with guts and gaiety and the spirit of no tomorrow. But this side of Menninger's, no one could have dreamed that such a promise would be delivered. The actual result was bland and unfunny, full of toothpicks masquerading as rapiers...