Word: portion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Julie, though she has plenty of a high and special kind, has less of the more everyday varieties. "What she needs now, if she is going to grow," a friend says, "is to have a woman's life, and to suffer a woman's portion, and to wait for a woman's strength to come to her out of the dark." Director Clurman agrees: 'Julie hasn't developed what I call genius -an out-of-bounds personality. And there s no way you can go out and get it. Tragedy can develop...
Died. Robert Emmet Sherwood, 59, Pulitzer Prizewinning playwright (Idiot's Delight, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, There Shall Be No Night), historian (Roosevelt and Hopkins), top cinema writer (The Best Years of Our Lives), ghostwriter (1940-45) of some portion of every major Franklin D. Roosevelt speech-of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...deference to the professional viewpoint, editor Melvin J. Lasky has given top rating to Malraux. The French historian-philosopher has allowed an advance peek at his The Metamorphosis of the Gods, which will be published next year. Malraux's high scholarship in the selected portion, a preliminary philosophical comparison of the art of several cultures, is fully palatable to the casual reader by virtue of his immensely exciting style. While the editor has made an admirable journalistic coup in obtaining the selection, its brevity perhaps leaves Malraux out of the Review's context. Close perusal of the text and accompanying...
...first local concert of the Harvard Glee Club served as a preview as well as a benefit for its projected European tour next summer. Several of the works performed on Friday night are being groomed for Europe, anda portion of the concert was sung only by the singers on the European list...
...portion of the tape played to Judge Aldrich yesterday seemed directly to contradict Senator Joseph R. McCarthy's testimony that Kamin was present in the hearing room when he discussed the purposes for which Kamin had been called. The tape included a phrase not recorded in the transcript: After McCarthy had explained the hearing's purpose and said Kamin would be the first witness, a voice said, "I believe Mr. Kamin is in the side room...