Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There had been times when Culture-master Malraux came dangerously close to satire in describing the accomplishments of France-"the most powerful lighthouse in the world, the largest hangar for airplanes, the most modern goods station, the highest road over a dam . . ." And sometimes it was hard to talk about grandeur in the most skeptical and free-thinking nation in the world. The moment he became official, Malraux lost some caste among all those passionate or cynical Left Bank defenders of the right-and the duty-of Art to be anti-official...
...George Z.F. Bereday, professo of Comparative Education, Teachers College, Columbia University; Henry S. Dyer '27, vice-president, Educational Testing Services, Princeton, N.J.; James A. Lewis, vice-president of student affairs at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.; and Ernest Stabler, professor of Education and chairman of the Master of Arts in Teaching Program, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn...
...MIDNIGHT SYMPHONY. Latest classical releases.In WHRB's master control room, production director Robert E. Wennersten '61 handles controls for Evan Y. Semerjian's 11:30 p.m. show All the News...
...that Mark Twain did not stay around Boston long enough to again meet his Russian-Jewish counterpart, Sholom Aleichem. Sholom Aleichem was the greatest of Yiddish folk writers and there will be no more great ones. Sholom Aleichem and Isaac Peretz, another master storyteller, have provided Arnold Perl with the material which Perl has transformed into excellent theatre. The Boston six day engagement is an all too brief revival of the 1953 New York hit. It is a world of bittersweet laughter, presented in the form of three short sketches...
...catch my little Sophy by her hair again, for she has flown away from you!" A paragraph later, Mrs. Marigold commits suicide (the river route). Handkerchiefs must be kept at the ready, for Marigold adopts a deaf-mute girl who is being cuffed and starved by a bestial circus master...