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Such was Simon Bolivar, as Waldo Frank writes, and frequently overwrites, about him. The Birth of a World is in the grand, Frank-incensed style: dramatic accounts of battles, perceptive essays on Latin-American landscape and character, lingering portraits of Bolivar and his aides, pretentious speculations on the "wholeness" of Bolivar's personality...
Speakers at the N.S.A. sponsored meeting on "Pressure Points in World Politics" will be Donald C. Mckay chairman of the Committee on International and Regional Studies, John K. Fairbank '39, professor of Far Eastern History, Clarence H. Haring '07, Bliss Professor of Latin-American History and Economics, and Richard N. Frye, assistant professor of Middle Eastern Studies...
...quite come off. Elaine Ryan, the adapter, has been unable to capture the buoyancy of Bemelmans' writing, which derives its charm more from narration than dialogue. Those shreds of the novel which Miss Ryan has selected chronicle the ups and downs of a platonic affair between a lusty Latin-American general and his frigid English "governess," as she chooses to call herself. Two character traits come out of this union to comprise the main comic material, which is seldom funny: the governess' morbid preoccupation with her own death, and the general's sexual appetite. The rest of the play...
...play, a musical set in a mythical Latin-American republic, Anyguay, records in two acts and 12 scenes the efforts of Rodrigo, a jungle dweller, to modernize the sleepy state along the lines of the United States. His knowledge of the U.S. is limited to what he has read in Life Magazine...
Frederick H. Gwynne '51 and Robert G. Myhrum ocC have the principle roles in the Pudding's 1949 show, a musical comedy concerned with the political intrigue of a mythical Latin-American state, Anyguay...