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Other international languages have had equally ill-fated experiences. But this has not deterred the belief that a successful one of universal value would someday be found. The latest and most serious attempt is now underway with a language called Interlingua. For the past three years Science Service, the Institution...

Author: By Andrew W. Bingham, | Title: Interlingua: A Universal Language? | 12/3/1955 | See Source »

The dream of an undergraduate parliament, patterned after the Oxford Union, has been a frequent fantasy which has always ended as a twisted nightmare of the original model. The glamorous expectations about a "Parliament" created much of the disappointment. Everyone knows Parliamentary Members can be witty and whimsical; student parliaments...

Author: By Cliff F. Thompson, | Title: ... From an Oratorical Ruin | 11/3/1955 | See Source »

The Diary of Anne Frank (dramatized by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett) does well with a difficult assignment, achieves through quiet sensibility what could be wrecked by staginess. From young Anne Frank's real-life chronicle of herself and seven other Jews hiding out during the Nazi occupation in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Oct. 17, 1955 | 10/17/1955 | See Source »

The ill-fated Brannan plan, a proposal of the last Democratic Secretary, had many faults, but it recognized that the government must finance agriculture's readjustment to modern economic conditions. Distasteful as a continuation of high price supports may be, they are the cornerstone of any long-range solution to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Growing Pains | 10/13/1955 | See Source »

With suggestions of ancient Greece in Boris Aronson's fine setting, with the neighborhood lawyer (J. Carrol Naish) acting as Greek chorus and talking poetically of the Greek and Sicilian past, A View plainly seeks to evoke the drama's great first home of guilty passion and fatal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Oct. 10, 1955 | 10/10/1955 | See Source »

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