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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...works of hundreds of Western thinkers, says that he has made his selection without prejudgment, lets each writer speak as a contemporary in a conversation that began with Protagoras. His avowed purpose, neither agreement nor evaluation, was to bring great minds together. The only initial agreement that he could find among them was that "they all attribute [freedom] to man and agree that it has reality and meaning in human life...
...Schoolchild's Library series published by the staid D.O.S.A.A.F. (Volunteer Society for Aiding the Army, Air Force and Navy). "Check your children's library," thundered the Literary Gazette, official organ of the Soviet Writers' Union, in a review last week. "Even if you do not find the book in it, do not get complacent. Go around to the bookshops and buy all the copies you see and burn all the ones you buy. Get your friends to do the same...
...modeling in his studio a few miles away on the Hudson. "How I love it," he exclaims. "A foundry is out of time, out of space; it is 7,000 years ago and now." To the foundry workers, Lipchitz is a hard taskmaster. "What interests me now is to find new paths," he says, and hands them yet another casting problem. But it is just this drive that leads Britain's Sir Herbert Read (who ranks Lipchitz with such sculptors as Henry Moore, Jean Arp, Brancusi and Giacometti) to say: "From the early days of cubism to the present...
Historic Reply. Marlborough, returning tired and sick from campaigning, tried to heal the breach-only to find that he, too, had had his day. Just as the Queen would have no more of Sarah, so would the war-weary nation have no more of John. "Mr. & Mrs. Freeman" were no more: they had been reduced to the status of a common duke and duchess...
...find that the opinions of some witnesses for appellants that (the church) 'would tend to destroy that harmonious attitude of Brattle Street' and would be 'out of character with the neighborhood' are of no materiality whatsoever...