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...decade as Boylston Professor, MacLeish has written four more plays. In The Trojan Horse (1952) he turned Homer's tale into a tragic and powerful parable about McCarthyism and the destructive force of fear and unreason. He specifically authorized its production without scenery, or over the radio. This Music Crept By Me Upon the Waters (1953), a comedy about five couples who have withdrawn from the banalities of the business world to a "paradise" in the Antilles, does not succeed; its obscurities prevent it from working on the stage...
There was a slow-gathering presentiment of crisis in France. President de Gaulle himself seemed to share it, for a new note crept into his discourses. He talked of "the abyss at our feet" if France were disunited. To a rain-soaked crowd at Chambery in the foothills of the Alps, he appealed in almost anguished tones for national unity. "I have no other reason for being, you well know, than this unity. I am in a way the symbol of it, the guarantee; events have willed it so. It is the service that I can perform in the days...
...trouble on the TV debate with Kennedy. Rain dogged him from Illinois to New York to Massachusetts. Chowder fog slowed his chartered Convair while crowds waited restlessly on the ground below. Gremlins bugged up his public-address system in Long Island City and Schenectady, N.Y., and unfortunate twists crept into his off-the-cuff sallies ("It's our responsibility that we . . . get rid of the farmers" instead of "farm surplus...
...stilts, it was the dry season and customers on the terrace of the Hotel Regina sipped their beer in relative comfort, grateful for a temperature dip that had taken the thermometer down to the 80s. Upriver at Coquilhatville, astraddle the equator, it was sweltering as usual, and the natives crept out of their huts to sleep in the tall moist grass. To the east, where the rain forest changes to flat plains, then rolling hills, then towering mountains, blacks and whites alike lit fires as the sun disappeared, folding themselves in blankets to keep off the bitter chill...
...Congo the week began in deceptive calm. Cautiously, Belgian merchants crept back into the cities, taking down the shutters from their shop windows in hasty compliance with the Congo Cabinet's decree that stores and factories must reopen by August 8 or be confiscated. Reports of continuing tribal warfare among the Baluba and Lulua in the Kasai interior hardly ruffled Léopoldville's street crowds. Here and there local commanders of the Congo's restive Force Publique set up as semi-independent potentates. One Sabena pilot on a routine flight to Stanleyville suddenly heard...