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...learned man who wrote those words that is precisely what is happening to the U.S. John Courtney Murray sees his native America entering a new era of post-modern man" in a sorry state of ideological disarray that, unless repaired must doom the best political skill and dedication. His lucid, well-modulated concern for the U.S. has long ago earned him eminence among the cognoscenti with time for learned journals and debate Now in his first book, We Hold These Truths (Sheed & Ward; $5), he is entermg a new, broader area of influence. In the months to come, serious Americans...
...Three Oaks, Mich. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in business administration and a Phi Beta Kappa key, worked briefly for a Chicago accounting firm, joined General Motors' New York staff as an accountant in 1926. His quick grasp of figures and his lucid speech propelled him quickly upward. In 1941, at 38, he became one of the youngest G.M. executives ever to reach a vice-presidency. In 1956 he was named executive vice president for finance...
...Styan is Staff Tutor in Literature and Drama in the University of Hull's department of adult education. His book, The Elements of Drama, shows how good teaching can be. This is not a piece of original scholarship on the drama; it is a straightforward and lucid introduction to the subject, and of its kind a model. The book is sensible, intelligent, interesting and detailed...
...most successful poems, Mr. Sandy is a quiet and reflective poet, filtering his impressions through an attitude of thin irony; in his less effective poems he is a pyro-technician mixing together dissimilar images, and coming up with something considerably less impressive and less compelling than his more lucid work...
Pleas of Sympathy. Last week the jury of one Negro and eleven whites heard final characterizations of the chunky borough president by the defense ("a babe in the woods") and the prosecution ("plain cupidity"), and a lucid charge by Judge Joseph A. Sarafite. After filing into the jury room, they split wide open. Without once mentioning Jack's race (a sort of racism in reverse peculiar to hypersensitive Manhattan), they wrangled bitterly for almost 19 hours, finally deadlocked on all charges. "It was chaos," said one weary juror. "All we heard were pleas of sympathy for Jack...