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...Schuman could see an even blacker cloud on the immediate horizon. The six-power London agreement to set up a provisional Western German government would soon have to be laid before the Assembly for ratification. The Communists, of course, were against it. Maurice Thorez had already called it "a national disaster." And General Charles de Gaulle promised a public statement on the subject before the debate began. That De Gaulle would be critical, there was no doubt. If he were violently critical, Radical and rightist deputies would not vote the ratification...
American newspapers paint a blacker picture of China than exists, Roscoe Pound, University Professor emeritus and adviser to the Chinese Ministry of Justice, reported today...
...captures the sound-track. A doctor (Mason) tells his criminology class of a case of revenge, the camera reveals in flashbacks that Mason is his own subject, and that his lecture only anticipates his later actions. The original scheme, however, breaks down in practice and Mason's outlook gets blacker and blacker as complications arise between the killing and the burying. He does what he can to lose the body, but finally fails when he is persuaded to operate and save a life, his ironical undoing...
Over all the flaws ran Goldovsky's insistent misinterpretation of the Giovanni role. Through devices of exaggeration and misrepresentation the Don was painted progressively blacker and blacker. In the famous anti-climactical finale Goldovsky had two of his singers draw the curtains behind them as they warned the audience of the effects of sin, thus putting the last film of farce on what should have been a tragedy-on a performance that was petty and cute and exaggerated instead of majestic and underlyingly serious...
...seems to be due to three factors: a) the ever blacker and bleaker political outlook; b) my own growing sense of ignorance . . .; c) the psychological demands of a one-man magazine. . . ." Not much could be done about a, but Editor Macdonald would do what he could about the other two: he would try to get an editorial group together, and he would change Politics to a quarterly "for a while," starting in January...