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Shakespearean Directrix Margaret Webster who also did Evans's Richard II, Hamlet and Henry IV, Part I, has done her usual best by the Bard. Stewart Chancy has designed Italianate landscapes that loom softly behind the players. Paul Bowles, among the up-&-coming young American composers, has written lingering music for Shakespeare's songs, celebrating love and death with flute, oboe, harp, harpsichord, percussion and muted trumpet. The Bard, in his latest Broadway manifestation, has got all the breaks a playwright could wish. The audience's rewards are less solid...
...places, especially in showing how the mathematics of infinity developed, and in explaining the calculus, Mathematics and the Imagination plows through heavy seas, and formidable equations loom like reefs and icebergs. But the book is studded with titillating mathematical believe-it-or-nots, puzzles and paradoxes that have bemused men through the ages...
...long as Mexico has had elections it has had pistoleros ("gunmen"). These bravos are sometimes paid, and sometimes just appoint themselves, to "support" respective candidates for office. During political off-seasons they keep in training by provoking purely private, local brawls, but let a close election loom and they emerge in force to strut around bars, clank their spurs haughtily and utter elegant insults at other candidates' pistoleros. Some pistoleros have strong political ideals. A lot of them get their bravado from tequila...
...Atlantis had risen streaming from the sea, it could scarcely have attracted more public interest in the U. S. than South America has in the past few years. FORTUNE led the journalistic rediscoverers with a series of articles in 1937-39. In 1938 the Fascist Menace began to loom, Carleton Beals wrote The Coming Struggle for Latin America, and Cordell Hull survived Round One at the Lima Conference. Last year Reporter John T. Whitaker added to the literature of moderate alarm with Americas to the South, and Katherine Carr contributed her excellent South American Primer (TIME...
Although the Roman Catholic Church hates war as much as the next Christian, its attitude towards war has always been realistic. Modern simon-pure pacifism, as unrealistic as it is high-minded, has been fostered more by Protestants than by Catholics. Yet as World War II began to loom, widespread signs of pacifist leanings appeared among U. S. Catholics. At first, the pacifism of such leaders as Bishop John Aloysius Duffy of Buffalo had a narrow basis: fear that Catholics might be called upon to fight as allies of the U. S. S. R. With that fear removed, there remained...