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...curious melange of Hindu theology, "existential" philosophy, and Anne Morrow Lindburgh euphemy, Jiddu Krishnamurti offers a spiritual balm for the "issue confronting all of us." In his attempt to free the self from a changing and complex world-entanglement, Krishnamurti maintains the absolute necessity of tranquility and of the present as a base for realization...
...great difference between having all industry run by a committee of Commissars and by a small group of Directors." Above all, F.D.R. denounced business and was committed to large doses of statism. At book's end, in 1933, Roosevelt, "armored in some inner faith . . . serenely awaited the morrow...
Actually, the French gained the day by promising the morrow. Foreign Minister Christian Pineau himself recognized that France had given "a kind of international pledge." Said Pineau: "The approval we have received at the U.N., notably on the part of the U.S., was largely due to the fact that we proposed a constructive solution to the Algerian problem." The constructive solution is still largely on paper. It calls for a ceasefire, elections in peaceful areas, followed by negotiations with the elected Algerians...
...authority. But it may also invite violent opinions and firm prejudices. Latest case in point: John Ciardi, 40, Boston-born, Tufts-educated poet, critic, and professor. When, in the course of his side job as poetry editor of the Saturday Review, a new book of verse by Anne Morrow Lindbergh-The Unicorn and Other Poems-came across his desk last month. Critic Ciardi communed with Poet Ciardi and then, in 1,500 sulphuric words, poured damnation on it. "I can certainly sense the human emotion that sends Mrs. Lindbergh to the writing." wrote Ciardi, "but of her poems I have...
This four-character play, thinly disguised as a novel, tells the story of a prodigal but unpenitent son. Charlie Morrow, a low man on the Madison Avenue totem pole, who has "always been so ready to be rich," drives up to Connecticut in a mortgaged Cadillac to hear the reading of his father's will. In the family law office, Charlie spends an idle 15 minutes making a conquest of Ellen, a pretty secretary, a girl who proves singularly susceptible to a combination of old jokes and rueful self-pity. But after this pleasant diversion, the will...