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...century whodunit that poses a perplexing riddle: Is the fetching, half-English, half-Italian widow Rachel (Olivia de Havilland) a murderess who killed her former husband? And is she now slowly doing away with her lover (Richard Burton) by slipping laburnum seeds into his tea? Or is Rachel only misunderstood-a gracious, generous "woman of impulse ... of strong feeling" whose husband died of a hereditary brain tumor? This mystery is slickly served up with all the full flavorings of romance, tragedy, revenge, intrigue and suspense. Bells clang in the distance, the surf beats on the misty Cornish coast, shadows loom...
Every poet runs the risk of being misunderstood; and there are many readers who do not care to make the effort to understand Eliot. But he is never willfully obscure, though his poems are compact of literary allusions, many of which will escape the thinly read. But no reasonably well-educated and sensitive reader can escape the poems' impact and meaning. In The Complete Poems the course he has run becomes clear. It began with satire that expressed something close to contempt for his fellow men. But Eliot survived and surpassed satire. His maturer poems are religious, culminating...
...more misleading article than one which simply reprints, say, every charge men like McCarthy make. Developments in foreign policy, atomic exhibitions, gyrations in the price of AT&T stock, and other such events where no one knows for sure all that is actually going on are also easily misunderstood if reported without benefit of additional explanations...
...difficult now to perceive an objective picture of Gropius by talking to the faculty. Since most of his supporters have left, the ones that remain will usually portray Hudnut as the misunderstood man, and Gropins as the unyielding genius. To the outside observer, there can be no real facts. Everything said by a professor or instructor is tainted with the bitter feelings of the quarrel...
...Reader Turner apparently misunderstood TIME'S wrestling reference: eye-gouging, biting, etc. are barred...