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Peter D. L. Stansky, assistant professor of History and the course instructor, evidently takes intellectual change seriously. The last item on the reading list, which includes Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, and E.M. Forster, is "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." And it is required...
What saved the week was a BBC dramatization of E. M. Forster's A Passage to India, carried by 35 U.S. public TV channels. Thanks in large part to authentic exteriors shot in India and an impeccable cast headed by Dame Sybil Thorndike, this was as sharp a TV drama as U.S. audiences have seen all season...
...Diet and Health, by Lulu Hunt Peters, ruled the nonfiction list; Shaw's St. Joan made eighth place. In fiction, Edna Ferber's So Big was that big-but E. M. Forster couldn't make the first ten with A Passage to India. The 1925 fiction list gave first place to A. Hamilton Gibbs's Soundings, while Lewis' Arrowsmith took seventh place. But even then, Scott Fitzgerald's reputation was not strong enough to install The Great Gatsby among the top ten. Also missing: Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy...
...military mission in Guatemala City, and headed down Avenida de las Americas. Ten blocks from the mission, a dark green sedan carrying three men pulled alongside, and one of them suddenly opened up with a machine gun. "I instinctively hit the dirt," recalled Sgt. Major John R. Forster, who was wounded in the hand. Chief Petty Officer Harry Green caught a bullet in the spine. Sitting in the front seat, Colonel John D. Webber, 47, head of the mission and driver of the car, and Lieut. Commander Ernest A. Munro, 40, chief of the mission's naval section, took...
Maudie accepts the permanency of her alienation and returns home with the words: "Everyone is on their own." What sets Author Forster's trim, sparklingly clear little novel apart from other studies in loneliness is her attitude toward her central character. Though she is unsparing of Maudie, she also treats her with care and a humored understanding that demonstrates how it is-and why-that the loveless get by in the world...