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...front page of Tuesday's CRIMSON, I fail to see much connection between the report of a recent capture of a white whale and a symbolic interpretation of "Moby Dick." Herman Melville created his work of fiction using as a basis for his story a vast wealth of factual and mythical information surrounding the whaling industry. One of these myths was about the terrible fierceness of white sperm whales. The whiteness was ascribed to old age, not to an albino condition as far as I know. If I remember correctly there is no specific mention of the fact in "Moby...
...agreement with Nabokov for keeping facts and fiction separate. However, it is sometimes interesting to know the factual basis for fiction. An excellent work which gives the sources of Melville's works was published by Columbia University Press in 1939. I believe the title is "Melville in the South Seas." It may be had at Lamont Library. D. H. Morris...
...documentary method proves a drawback because, far more than imaginative drama, documents exist to be scrutinized. On a factual basis, it is improbable that hospital psychiatrists, however literal-minded, would to a man misread both Jim and his wife. Documents can also get flat-toned, but, thanks to the production, The Shrike very seldom does. Jose Ferrer acts Jim Downs with wonderful quiet skill. Equally distinguished is his staging of the play, with its large, hand-picked cast that includes Judith Evelyn in the tough role of the wife. Powerful enough to raise goose pimples, The Shrike is yet plausible...
...bringing these men together, the picture does an excellent job of showing how American Intelligence recruited, trained, and equipped German prisoners for espionage work, and smuggled them into Germany. Happy's sensitive acting puts the factual details in a meaningful human context...
...advice to the American male before he plunges, with a buzzy head and starry eyes, into the sea of matrimony, is to read and take heed of Gilbert K. Smith's short, factual letter to the editor of TIME Magazine [Reader Smith was baffled "at the never-ending plunge of the American male . . . into matrimony...