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...enigmatic "Life Force," encounters the mother-woman, conflict is intensified because the artist is unwilling to submit to domesticity. A third twist is developed as the mother-woman also turns out to be an artist-mother-woman, which Anne Whitefield is. Thus the sexual trapping is extended to encompass broad questions of artistic self-realization in the face of domestic morality and social mores...
...phenomenon by our very civilization, by tradition, and by words which are conditional and limited, J. Robert Oppenheimer '26 told a Sanders Theatre audience yesterday in the fourth talk of a series entitled "The Hope of Order." The atomic scientist said that we must continually search for descriptions which encompass and transcend the descriptions of the past...
...Beck's side was a brown leather briefcase bulging with the personal financial records that the committee had asked him to bring. Ordered to turn them over, the witness unfolded a slip of white paper with the seven lines of large type that he had said earlier would "encompass the whole atmosphere of everything...
Conventional historical maps usually show only one point in time, but TIME's R. M. Chapin Jr. managed to encompass broad spans of time in his maps and yet keep them easily readable. His Roman map, for instance, ranges from the time of the Punic Wars through Constantine, and his Islam map from Mohammed to the last days of the Ottoman Empire...
...spiritual road to Canterbury is a meandering one, winding through far country to encompass a multitude of views. Those who travel it are widely diverse pilgrims who come to the Anglican Communion in search of widely diverse qualities. In Modern Canterbury Pilgrims (Morehouse-Gorham; $3.85), published this week, 22 converts to Anglicanism-from former Roman Catholics to former Jews-tell why they became Anglicans, and describe what they discovered. Some of their views...