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Another writer, in the humanities session with Mrs. Piper, is Martin Walser, German short-story author and novelist. German and American intellectuals are in the same boat, stated Walser, because they are not directly in the employ of their governments and stand apart from their people. "While the intellectual cannot agree with what goes on around him, it's not his business to be angry or propose ready remedies." An intellectual, Walser stated, "should be a diagnostician, not a surgeon...
Separate Tables is actually a brace of plays--Table by the Window and Table Number Seven--both laid in a modest English private hotel. Both plays are studies in different types of loneliness; and both, aside from the two leads, employ the same set of characters. There is plenty of humor, but the themes are basically serious...
...final speaker, Commentator Charles B. Marshall, visiting scholar of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, urged that in her relations with the "teen-age states" the U. S. employ a doctrine to overcome "self-inflicted abuses...
Mark Twain's classic rules for fiction, reflected Morris in a rare burst of pedantry, included: "Employ a simple and straightforward style," "Eschew surplus age," and "Accomplish something and arrive somewhere." Why, then, did English courses of every variety let James creep in through the trap door under the lectern? Why, on the other hand, did most courses on American literature ignore Thomas Wolfe...
...Furnishings Council of America, with a budget of $1,000,000. Among other things, the council will try to educate the housewife on the basics of furniture buying, will send speakers and films to women's clubs, farm and teen-age groups, Parent-Teacher Associations and firms that employ many women. It will also train salespeople-many of whom do not have the best taste in furniture-to help the housewife find out what she really wants, show her what new pieces will fit in best with her old furniture...