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...Smoking Gospel. Drums under the Windows is the third volume of Playwright O'Casey's autobiography (preceding volumes: I Knock at the Door, Pictures in the Hallway). Rambling, rhapsodic, episodic, it is written sometimes in straightaway English, sometimes in lyrical doubletalk like that of the earlier James Joyce. The subject is his grimmest, bitterest, pre-playwright years: the 15 years or so up to and including the 1916 Easter Week Rising. Like almost any good book written by a good Irishman about those days, Drums is at bottom sentimental and romantic, but the resemblance to the standard stops...
...They marshaled .behind them great hosts of men & women and boys & girls, filled full with the conviction that they had a true and living gospel for a decadent world, and ready to carry that gospel wherever the range of guns and bombs can reach. . . . And now a whole generation is looking helplessly round for some faith as powerful and as transforming that they can erect in opposition to this portentous, man-devouring sphinx of their own creation...
Harvard and the Pre-Raphaelites had never gotten along too well. Seventy years ago Harvard's eloquent art professor Charles Eliot Norton came back from vacations in England and talks with Ruskin to preach the Pre-Raphaelite gospel. His lectures were crowded because his courses were regarded as a cinch; Norton, in disgust at his lack of conversions, told his students that they were just "roughnecks." His enthusiasm for the P.R.B. boys, however, caught one young student, Grenville Lindall Winthrop, who was a wealthy retired lawyer when he died in 1943. Winthrop left his art collection...
Highway of Peace. The U.S. still preached the gospel of multilateralism as a "highway of peace." In Manhattan last week, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs William L. Clayton pointed out that the U.S. and Britain were pledged to get their allies to shelve the economic nationalisms that existed between the wars-excessive tariffs, quotas, embargoes, preferences, subsidies, licenses, exchange controls, clearing agreements, barter deals. But Will Clayton failed to say that the U.S.-British declaration of last December is as far as ever from implementation. In December Clayton had said that the 16 "nuclear nations...
David W. Balley '21, Secretary to the Corporation, said last night that he had found no authenticity for the legend, though he admitted he had accepted it as "gospel" when an undergraduate. Bailey said that he had spoken to Clifford K. Shipton, Custodian of the University Archives who is editing Sibley's "Harvard Graduates," and Shipton has said there was nothing in the official records or in the terms under which the Boylston Chair was set up that would substantiate the bovine fable...