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Individualism v. Economic Law. The title of The Yogi and the Commissar, a collection of 16 essays, mostly on writing and politics, fits the book like a glove. For Koestler believes that every thinking man today is threatened or tempted by these two polar figures. On the extreme Left stands the Commissar-the superbly disciplined Communist who believes that the end justifies the means, and who has exchanged ethics, personal liberty and all irrational sentiments for a ruthless "pseudo-Communism" based on economic laws. On the extreme Right, in an "exotic hermitage," stands (or sits) the Yogi. He believes that...
Because of his own enthusiasm for science, Van Anda made it front-page news, devoting big space to Marconi's experiments in telegraphy and to Peary's and Amundsen's polar expedition. He led the way in making Einstein and "King Tut" U.S. household words...
...there is much less entertainment these days in a France where only trained polar bears would find trouping comfortable. In addition to a limited, valiant rank-&-file, there are just two top-rank entertainers: Katharine Cornell and Marlene Dietrich. But Cornell, with a production of The Barretts of Wimpole Street (co-starring Brian Aherne), and Dietrich, with a live-wire troupe, are both doing the work...
...From the arctics and antarctics which they explore, they bring a refrigeration that benumbs artistic sensibilities. Many an auditorium is converted into a 'thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice,' the loges and stalls becoming igloos of inadequate shelter during sequences of gelid motets, sleet-sheeted symphonies, and polar-cold oratorios...
Hats Off to Ice (produced by Sonja Henie and Arthur M. Wirtz) gave Manhattan's vast Center Theater its fifth polar pageant in four years. Though any of these monster skating parties could pardonably be mistaken for any other, Hats Off-with its glossy look, its smart showmanship, its varied skill-is one of the best...