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Showman in Misalliance Shaw certainly was - far more, indeed, than dramatist. He is armed with a text of sorts - family life in all possible aspects. But far from expounding it from a pulpit, he scatters it bit by bit in a wild game of hare & hounds. Its chief bit is parents & children, a theme for which Shaw had perfect Shavian qualifications: he was never a parent and quite possibly never a child. He effortlessly makes mincemeat of the two distinguished fathers in his play, and little monsters of their daughters & sons. The war between the generations ticked off. he turns...
...Upper Reaches." News of her appointment brought statements of approval from her associates in Congress, and from the Italian press. From another woman, New York Times Columnist Anne O'Hare McCormick, came a careful appraisal of the job Clare Luce has to face...
...contributes powerfully to his thoughts on imponderable nature, giving balance and clearness to the total meaning. Tending towards obscurity, Robert Layzer presents a tribute to She Voyages which becomes entangled in odd grammar and unconnected images. Regrettably, he is unable to control some highly imaginative metaphors. What Winifred Hare means to imply in her caption, Song for Two People on Three Instruments, I will not venture to guess. Regardless of what she refers to, her piece creates a pleasant, colorful mood in fresh medieval tone. Considering her intent, this poem is the brightest...
...European press, to whose faithful readers the vote was a tremendous surprise. "Europe's reaction," wrote New York Times Columnist Anne O'Hare McCormick, "was colored by reports [which] created the impression that . . . Stevenson was not only a probable winner but the best if not the only hope of saving American foreign policy from 'neo-isolationism.' This line of comment, echoed in France, Italy and other allied countries, is the end result of slanted reports and unwarranted assumptions...
...domes encased in glass and white stone, stocked with marvelously efficient gadgets and thick rugs. The Assembly's own $12½ million hall, a low, sweeping building with vast high corridors and uncluttered lobbies, looked serene and orderly. The New York Times's Anne O'Hare McCormick heard more than one onlooker murmur: "Let's hope all of this will not go to waste...