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...remembered childhood. "(He) mused with half-closed eyes which went in and out of focus with sleepiness, upon the slow twinkling of the millions of heavy leaves on the trees and the slow flashing of the blades of the corn...and everything hung dreaming in a shining silver haze..." In his treatment of the boy's father's Agee shows a sure power of characterization, even in these few pages, which is nearly equal to his descriptive skill. The only possible complaint is that more space was not devoted to these excerpts...
...third is Abraham Joshua Heschel. 49, Polish-born, Berlin-educated friend of Theologian Buber and associate professor of Jewish ethics and mysticism at Manhattan's Jewish Theological Seminary. Twinkle-eyed Dr. Heschel, a small man located beneath a bush of grey hair, labors in a blue haze of cigar smoke, and writes prose that sings and soars in the warm, intuitive tradition of the great 18th century Hasidic leaders from whom he is descended. His just-published book. God in Search of Man (Farrar, Straus & Cudahy; $5), is. subtitled "A Philosophy of Judaism," but it speaks to all those...
...befogged undergraduate emerges from the grey haze of examination period, he stumbles through his one-day vacation, signs his two registration cards- and then finds himself confronted with a bewildering tangle of courses, most of which somehow meet at the same time. Completely stymied, he wanders aimlessly from course to course for a week, seeking that missing ideal combination. Professors generally denounce this "shopping," yet the faculty itself does little to prevent it. If courses within fields of concentration conflicted less, students would be able to choose their courses with greater satisfaction on all sides...
...wish to express my appreciation of your Jan. 23 article on John Foster Dulles' admirable action in not giving everything to the Communists. He is one of the very few people, in our time, who is not lost in the Red haze...
...stretches, his music does convey to cramped city audiences a sense of nature's bigness, of a peasant tenacity. Years ago Sibelius wrote in his diary: "A wonderful day, spring and life. The earth exhales a fragrance?mutes and fortissimi. An extraordinary light that reminds one of an August haze...