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...sins of his ancestors. His flight from the three Eumenides who represent the curse leads him at last to the family reunion arranged by his mother at the Monchensey estate. He is bewildered, baffled by his own lack of understanding and the blindness to his troubles of all his humdrum relations. It is only with the help of his Aunt Agatha's insight, gained through her experience with the curse in its impact upon his father, that he realizes the Eumenides are only his own conscience and he must pursue them, must make his life a pilgrimage of expiation, instead...
When the war broke out, peace-loving Canada had a Navy of six destroyers, five minesweepers and 37 small auxiliary craft. Last week it had 120 vessels (including six ex-U. S. destroyers) and was growing fast. And though its vessels had long been engaged in the humdrum work of convoy and patrol, and distinguished themselves in the hell of Dunkirk, last week for the first time the Royal Canadian Navy gave the world a good, smacking sea brush of its own to show it had no barnacles on its bottoms...
...students of a great university located in a metropolitan area are not immune. But there's little danger of that, when talk of war--in classrooms, in meetings, in newspapers, on the air, and almost daily in this column--will do its best to make you scorn the humdrum and familiar pattern or university life, a life which can be both dramatic and exciting...
...empty Louvre Museum (TIME, July 8), Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess opened in Munich a huge exhibit (1,397 paintings and sculptures by 741 Germans) showing what Germany's laboring artists had brought forth. Though strong on quantity, the Munich exhibition failed to keep up even the humdrum quality of competent imitative craftsmanship that has characterized the general run of German painting and sculpture for 400 years...
...squirrel spree forgotten, sugar was back at its humdrum ways: an industry of chronic depression, divided into a number of tough and coony political pressure groups. The U. S. consumes about 6,750,000 tons of sugar a year. The big cane importers and refiners are equipped to serve a market for 8,000,000 tons. Besides this, the relatively high-cost beet operators of the Mountain States, California and Michigan, can turn out 2,000,000 tons. Under a free economy, beet sugar would not get a smell of the domestic market until demand broke all records and exceeded...