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...other white men, and left their mark more indelibly than most. There have been Lowells commercial enough to take fortunes out of distilleries and cotton mills, Lowells august enough to serve as trustees of the Boston Athenaeum, Lowells literate enough to be represented on many a U.S. bookshelf...
...found out enough to fill a five-foot bookshelf. There had been a big mistake in the inventory: instead of the advertised $7 million worth of photographic equipment there was only $1.5 million worth. Congestion and bottlenecks were everywhere. Many purchasers went hungry rather than stand for hours in a PX line to buy food. After seven and a half hours of business, only 119 sales had been made, only $27,384.26 worth of merchandise sold...
Obviously all the authors are admirers of the late President. The estimates of Franklin Roosevelt by his friendly contemporaries (now under way) will be Phase II of his rendezvous with history. They will join a sizable bookshelf of Rooseveltiana, about 100 books and scores of pamphlets published up to his death in April 1945, ranging from Liberty League squeals to pious campaign biographies...
...long standing tradition that Shakespeare's plays are to be relegated to the bookshelf until a Margaret Webster or Maurice Evans sees fit to put them on the boards is being put to the acid test this week by Boston's Tributary Theatre group. Critics who ask whether the bard's works should be produced at all if they cannot be done to the king's taste are being answered, and all those who saw the Shakespeare Festival launched Tuesday night with Eliot Duvey's "Hamlet" know that the answer...
...liberal' education is directly opposed to all that democratic countries cherish as freedom. The idea that an adequate education of any kind can be obtained by means of a miscellaneous assortment of a hundred books, more or less, is laughable when viewed practically. A five-foot bookshelf for adults, to be read, reread, and digested at leisure throughout a lifetime, is one thing. Crowded into four years and dealt out in fixed doses, it is quite another thing. In theory and basic aim, however, it is not funny. For it marks a departure from what is sound...