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...GREAT REHEARSAL (336 pp.)-Carl Van Doren-Viking...
...Wisecracks. Their great achievement was to create an atmosphere in which disputes could be settled-an example which, says Author Van Doren, could well be emulated by the United Nations today. All the things the Constitutional Convention was not help to define what it was: it was not bombastic; there was no playing to the gallery, no wisecracking, no demolishing of an opponent by invective or ridicule. The displays of learning were soon exhausted-the delegates got tired of hearing about the ancient republics. The delegates were calm, and even when they rushed articles through, their decisions were deliberate...
...improving upon it. The 39 delegates had not only brought order out of chaos; they had created a new kind of state, varied, allowing for infinite differences, and solving the problem of a national control that still preserved local and individual liberty. One of the contributions of Carl Van Doren's book is that it provides readers with all the information they need to answer the old questions about the Constitution's rigidity, its difficulty of amendment, and its usefulness in a time of crisis. It also throws a good deal of light on discussions as to whether...
...Great Rehearsal is a day-by-day account of the convention; it is cool and unexcited. Deliberately, it seems, Author Van Doren has restrained himself from paying tribute to the magnitude of the accomplishment that he records. The book's drama is not in the telling, but in the event. For the miracle of the Constitutional Convention was not that the delegates organized a nation; it was the kind of nation they created, one that has grown and prospered beyond any in history, and will so continue, as long as it remains faithful to its origins...
...still a third corner of the Yard, Mark Van Doren will address the Harvard, World Federalists and interested outsiders in Emerson D at 8:30 o'clock. Van Doren, professor of English at Columbia, will speak on "A Liberal Looks at World Government...