Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rather than serve the new masters of Czechoslovakia, Jan Masaryk had gone to his death. This week, in his own way, ailing, 64-year-old Eduard Benes made his choice, too. He resigned as President of the republic-just one day before he would have had to approve the new Soviet-style constitution which makes his country another "Peoples' Republic...
They voted for abolition. Under British procedure the bill could not become law until approved by the House of Lords, or if they chose not to approve, Commons could, at the end of two years, reaffirm its vote and make it law anyway. But, with four murderers under death sentence, impulsive, humanitarian Home Secretary Chuter Ede did not even wait for the bill to reach debate in the House of Lords. He reprieved them...
Skull with a Smile. Last week the S.S. Marine Carp got back to the U.S. bearing an archeological treasure. It was the skull of an eight-year-old boy whom Father J. Franklin Ewing, SJ. has posthumously named (60,000 years after death) Egbert. Most of the little cave boy's bones are still imbedded in a block of stone, but the skull is exposed. It has, thinks Father Ewing, "a very pleasant smile...
...chief plot of "Les Eufants" concerns the nebulous love affair of an unwordly mime, Baptiste, and a tarnished but not unattractive young lady named Garance. Around this powerfully developed theme lie constellations of characters and stories: the rise of Frederick, the Actor of the Age; the life and death of Garance's titled paramour; and glimpses into the lives of actors and criminals and others too numerous to describe...
Gide was once a gifted pianist but played badly when he thought anyone was listening (he has not played since his wife's death). Because of a morbid fear of strangers, he cries "I am at home for nobody" when the doorbell rings; then he peers from behind a door at the visitor, often ends by asking him in for a chat...