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...Lagerkvist in his story The Eternal Smile. Winner of the 1951 Nobel Prize for literature, Lagerkvist (age 63) is the author of more than 35 books, including the novels Bar abbas and The Dwarf, and scores of plays, essays and poems. His tone ranges from near-ecstasy to heavy gloom, but in one matter he is always consistent-the conviction that a world that is filled to bursting with pain, joy, bewilderment and dissatisfaction is just what God intended...
...revelers saw their offspring divided up into three groups indiscriminate of sex and given over to counsellors. Thus relieved, parents whirled off to shed the gloom of their graduation-birth...
Strains & Indecisions. By contrast, the impassive Communists appeared united, tough and confident. The appearance was significant because international conferences frequently turn, not so much on the skill of the particpants, as on the common assessment of the prevailing realities. Does the West's gloom at Geneva accurately take into account the realities of the two great blocs...
...surrender this week of Luis Taruc, leader of the Philippine Communist guerrillas (see FOREIGN NEWS), flared like a match in a darkened amphitheater. For the past month anti-Communist forces in Asia had suffered defeat-defeat that culminated in, but has not necessarily ended at, Dienbienphu. In the gloom of Geneva, Britain, France and the U.S. have groped for a settlement with the Communists in Indo-China and Korea, and in their groping made the Communist position stronger. Taruc's personal surrender was a desperately needed light...
...rising storm whipped at the banners of Dwight Eisenhower's crusade. From Tonkin to Geneva last week, the atmosphere was charged with gloom, defeatism, suspicion among allies. In Washington the determined Republican efforts to contain the McCarthy-Army hearings failed, and new thunderheads spread over the Department of Justice and the White House itself...