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...something it does not pretend to be. In its evangelical message, it seems strangely more Calvinistic than Anglican (man find God through himself without mention of the church and with a predestined role). And these moralistic overtones make the characters into theological robots rather than into the crisp, little chessmen of The Cocktail Party. Mush as I enjoy the intellectual exercise The Confidential Clerk imposes, I had the feeling, when it was all over that the equations didn't balance, not even when you accept the particular set of coordinates in which Eliot chooses to devote his life...
...back alleys. Since 1948 alone, 13 cotton-spinning mills with 209,000 spindles have been established, and 43,000 more spindles will be added this winter. Other factories, which pay workers as little as 50? a day, make everything from floridly painted aluminum spittoons for African natives to ivory chessmen and bamboo furniture for American tourists. More than 400 companies with 80 million Hong Kong dollars capital are still waiting for sites within the small (391 sq. mi.) colony, and the government is working on a plan to create a new industrial zone to meet the demand...
...taught on large relief maps that have fresh water coursing through their lakes and rivers. Students cross the Straits of Gibraltar in a stride, hop the Mediterranean, stand on capital and continent while they sing their lessons. As they learn arithmetic, they themselves represent numbers, move about like chessmen singing easy, arithmetic rhymes. In other classes, they act out Spain's history, impersonating the Roman Consul Galba, El Cid or Columbus...
...football defeat had to be swallowed bald and whole. But there was balm in Gilead. Equally bald and equally whole stood forth the headline that proved that, although Harvard had lost a battle, it was winning the war. The headline read: "Crimson Chessmen Rock West Point Forces...
...reader in Norfolk, Va. asked if we could put him in touch with a subscriber in a country which grows teakwood. He wanted his favorite set of chessmen duplicated in teakwood, and he was willing to pay the cost of the project in TIME subscriptions. We gave him the name of a college student in India who had written us that he wanted very much to subscribe to TIME but couldn't afford it. Later on we hope to hear that they made a deal...