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...outstanding works dealing more generally with the problems of American higher education are Jacques Barzun's Teacher in America (1945), available in paperback, and a sterling series of seven or eight volumes issuing from the pen of Robert Maynard Hutchins between 1936 and 1956: (in paperback: Higher Learning in America and Freedom. Education and the Fund). The Profane Comedy belongs with these; and if you have time for only one of them, this...
...safer keeper of its place in the imaginative literature of America that The Sound and the Fury. In which Faulkner would have asserted to be a world in which no that is constant except human nature and a few of the marks an art makes with his pen, immortally in a work of literature is no small gift. For this Harvard owes Faulkner at least its gratitude...
Hard at Work. Betweentimes, Arthur's pen is hard at work. He writes book reviews, recently did a piece for the Saturday Evening Post ("The Failure of World Communism") and another for the New York Times Magazine ("The 'Threat' of the Radical Right"). For the monthly magazine Show, he writes snappy movie reviews. As to Summer and Smoke, starring Geraldine Page and Laurence Harvey, he loved her, hated him; as to Lolita, he loved it, loved her. He will soon have a new book, The Politics of Hope-which, contrary to rumors, is not about...
Extraordinary Move. In Paris, right-wing Deputies in the National Assembly acted as if history were reversible. "We will never abandon the idea of Algerie Française!" cried Deputy Jean-Marie Le Pen. Despite the fact that De Gaulle has overwhelmingly won two national referendums on his Algeria policy, the rightists filed a motion of censure against the government, but were sharply defeated. Even as angry debate on the motion rang from the Assembly floor, news tickers clacked out word of an extraordinary move by ex-General Edmond Jouhaud, who was condemned to death last month by the same...
Best of all. he was finally freed of the terror of Curtal's malicious pen...