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Dominating the tableau of aimlessness, decay and sterile joy is the image that gives the poem its name: the parched desert through which a wanderer struggles in search of an oasis. When he comes upon a chapel in the arid mountains, he significantly finds this symbol of faith broken and deserted-"There is the empty chapel, only the wind's home." But at the deepest point of despair, the rumble of thunder brings promise of rain to the waste land. The poem ends with the Hindu incantation, like the first shower of long-looked-for rain, shantih, shantih, shantih...
...they are encouraged to occupy themselves also with the things of the world. In their crowded dormitories are pin-up pictures of movie stars and sports figures; their bookshelves contain volumes by Karl Marx, A. J. Cronin, Saint-Exupery, and Communist Poets Louis Aragon and Paul Eluard. From the chapel come the strains of Old Folks at Home and Negro spirituals with new French words. Such music is considered to be "in touch with the mass suffering of our times. It is full of the plea of peoples who have lost touch with Christ...
Three Boston film, drama, and music critics will meet in the Chapel Room of Phillips Brooks at 7:30 p.m. tonight to discuss reviewing motion pictures. Featured at the meeting will be Elinor Hughes, Radcliffe '27, and Rudolph Elie, both of the Herald, and Cyrus Durgin of the Globe...
...auditorium filled up and overflowed into a smaller chapel downstairs. Classes had to be canceled altogether. Some speakers came forward boldly and eagerly, others were so overcome with shyness that they had to abandon the attempt and come back later to try again. Some broke down completely...
There was little audible response to the confessions. The audience sat quiet in the stuffy, humid chapel. Here & there, listeners sat with their heads in their hands. Patiently through almost all of it waited the Rev. Edwin Johnson of Seattle's First Mission Covenant Church, who, as leader of the Evangelistic Week, had been scheduled to address the group the night it all began. At last, President Edman gave him his chance at the microphone. "We've seen a probing of the heart today such as we've never seen before," said Johnson...