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...lights in the Fields' place-and appliances and television and all the rest in the valley-may illuminate much that has lain dark and shadowy for the people of the Yaak. At the Fields' place, for example, the lights will brighten walls that are hung with old rifles, a couple of powder horns, pictures of relatives in high lace collars and, of course, a photo of the President of the U.S.-Abe Lincoln...
Mother Land Long lain asleep Her people loved They lived And killed to live By Nature...
...answer, as interpreted by actors such as Paul Scofield and the late Louis Calhern, is that the seeds of madness have always lain dormant in Lear, ready at the slightest pretext to sprout. But Carnovsky has a more mordant and, in many ways, a more tragic view. Lear, he contends, is everyman; his disasters are everyman's and the tragedy in Shakespeare's eye "is not in Lear himself, but in life." When Carnovsky's Lear, reeling like a wounded animal, howls forth
Since Rouault's death in 1958, this work has lain in his studio near the Gare de Lyon, a big apartment whose address he kept secret to avoid visitors. He always hoped that his thick, glowing paintings would eventually be shown in some place that, unlike France's many one-man museums, would be widely known and easily accessible. This was also the dream of his daughter ("my little dove") Isabelle, who has devoted her life to her father's work. A few weeks ago Minister of Culture André Malraux told her of the museum plan...
...post of dean has lain vacant since former dean Francis G. Keppel '33 left Harvard in December to become U.S. Commissioner of Education. Acting dean has been Judson T. Shaplin '42, who was appointed associate dean of the Ed School in 1954. Shaplin is considered the only man from within the University who is a likely candidate for dean...