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...should like to write books about South Africa," said Alan (Cry, the Beloved Country) Paton a dozen years ago, "which would really stab people in the conscience." That is what he has succeeded in doing from the first. A tough and fearless little man who loves his country and its people, black and white (he is the leader of the Liberal Party in South Africa), Paton does not rank as a major writer. But for his purposes, he may be something even better: a male Harriet Beecher Stowe who avoids both the mawkishness and the melodrama of Uncle...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, it is now becoming apparent, is a fearless organization. A program of Brahms, Honegger, (not to mention David Lewin '54) would seem a formidable one, indeed, but the HRO proved last night that it can cope successfully with just about anything. Hubris, I am afraid, often goes unpunished these days...
...watchman of the title is the sheriff of a West Virginia town in the Ohio Valley, an apostle of nonviolence who has never fired at a criminal. Big and fearless, he inspires such confidence in the townspeople that no one sleeps uneasy at night. Then a young man is murdered, the son of one of the town's best families and the boy friend of one of the sheriff's two daughters. Why couldn't the sheriff be found the day of the murder, or for a day or so after that? And how could Daughter Jill...
...small Swiss town in the 1820s; his mother is the educated daughter of a pastor, and his father is a peasant who, through great ability and energy, has become a master builder. The father is the embodiment of the century's early surge of humanism; a fearless and optimistic man who taught himself architecture, and who leads his fellow townsmen in the building of schools and the forming of dramatic societies. He dies while Henry is still young, and his widow cuts up his green military uniform to make a suit for the boy. From then on, green...
Brazil. Despite inflationary troubles, still the strongest Latin American nation and most resistant to propaganda from Cuba. What little admiration Brazilians feel for Castro arises mostly out of the Cuban dictator's role as a fearless tweaker of Uncle Sam's nose-a role that President-elect Jânio Quadros appropriated last week by ignoring the invitation of President Eisenhower and refusing the invitation of President-elect Kennedy to visit...