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...Loeb's commencement production of Julius Caesar is, as Brutus might say, indeed ambitious. Director Daniel Seltzer parades a huge cast (playing eighty parts) across the cavernous main stage, dresses them in sumptuous costumes, mixes them together in mob scenes and battles, and supplements it all with a broad range of lighting and sound effects. But if his effort is ambitious, the result is at best uneven; Seltzer's Caesar is at times taut, at times grotesque, most often flat...
CORDELL HULL, by Julius W. Pratt. Though he was F.D.R.'s Secretary of State for nearly twelve years, Hull learned curiously little about either statesmanship or psychology. Pratt's is a straightforward biography that shies away from judgments...
...vivacious imaginations into Dutch gardens and smirking faces. Noel, Dahmen and Castel scratch calligraphy in mixed media to achieve image with script. Frenchmen Messagier and Tal-Coät recall nature's misty moods in abstract landscapes. Belgian Pol Bury puts chance to work in moving sculpture. Julius Bissier's refined watercolors and temperas round out the show. Through July...
...review editors and Ivy League products. Under a pioneering legal-intern program, the fund is training and will subsidize civil rights lawyers to fill an urgent need: fulltime practice in the South. The entire state of Mississippi, for example, has at present only four Negro lawyers. One promising recruit: Julius L. Chambers, son of an auto mechanic and first Negro to edit the North Carolina Law Review...
...diplomatic historian for 40 years, Julius Pratt has taken a close look at the Hull record. He plowed through the Hull papers in the Library of Congress, the unpublished papers of some of Hull's State Department colleagues. Pratt has written a spare, straightforward narrative that steers shy of judgments. But he does lead a reader to the inescapable conclusion that Hull-an amalgam of idealism, caution, and at times heroic stubbornness-was not up to the job of Secretary of State, even though he held it for nearly twelve years, longer than anyone else...