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...indulge in such threnodies for his hero, rather in the manner of the chorus in a Greek tragedy. But if he had called off his chorus now and then and given his characters some elbow room, he might at least have made Too Late the Phalarope a little clearer than its title. The phalarope (a small bird like a sandpiper) serves Author Paton as a symbol for innocence. Hard to say just...
...could judge how deep the unrest went into Soviet territory, but recent concessions to nationalist feeling in Georgia, Latvia and the Ukraine indicated a wavering of Soviet power in those theoretically monolithic states. It was becoming clearer every day that the recent conciliatory attitude of the Soviet towards the West is dictated by internal weakness...
...general agreement, the golden age of sport occurred somewhere back in the 19205, and the titans of those days-Red Grange, Babe Ruth, Bill Tilden, Charley Paddock, Man o' War-have seldom, if ever, been matched. Last week, however, it was clearer than ever that-for track and field sports-another golden age may be just around the comer...
...shows . . . that the notion of McCarthy's invincibility is largely legendary. He certainly cannot be credited with the defeat of seven Senators . . . McCarthy conducted a vigorous campaign against Tydings in 1950. But the strong probability is that Tydings would have been beaten anyway . . . The Connecticut case is even clearer. In 1950, McCarthy campaigned against [William] Benton, and Benton won in what was a generally tough year for the Democrats. In 1952, McCarthy made Benton almost his chief campaign target, [and] Benton ran a considerable margin ahead of Stevenson...
...Japan's great woodcut artists, Hiroshige and Hokusai (18th and early 19th centuries) who also made cheap prints of familiar scenes. If his work is far from rivaling those old masters, it does meet similar challenges in a similar spirit. And no living woodcut artist puts a clearer sense of place mood weather and human activity into his pictures than Frasconi...