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Your brilliantly written summary of world events, "The Half-Century," is a masterpiece of historical analysis. It will be reread in the year 2000 with something of the same abated breath that characterized its reading in this present time. You deserve the unstinted gratitude of intelligent people everywhere...
...illustrate the stories, Harte picked an intense, white-haired little artist named Guy Rowe. When 55-year-old Artist Rowe accepted the commission, he knew next to nothing about the inside of the Bible. For months before picking up a brush, he read and reread the Old Testament, steeping himself in its character and drama. Then he began a patient, persistent search-among his friends, in public places, on trains and planes-for the faces that would fit his conception of the prophets and kings of Israel. Only one picture was posed: his son and daughter-in-law became Adam...
...peppering his book with cracks about . . . his literary betters, including Sinclair Lewis, William Faulkner and George Santayana," only time (lower case) can tell how right he is. I dare your book editor to reread any of Lewis' or Faulkner's books of the early '30s in comparison with Arnndel, The Lively Lady or Captain Caution and repeat his claim that they are Roberts' betters. Perhaps Santayana might...
...Joseph Goldstein and others who consider The Merchant of Venice anti-Semitic [TIME, April 4], I would suggest they . . . reread the play with the open-mindedness they ask of others. Viewed from the 20th Century, the Christians make a pretty poor showing, on the whole. It is they who suffer from delusions of grandeur and indulge freely in insults and jibes; it is they who . . . mouth words like mercy and justice, only to evade an honest bargain by means of a cheap legal trick...
...said that if anyone wanted to know what his program would be, they should reread his September 1945 message to Congress. And he expected to carry out the Democratic platform, including its planks on civil rights-a challenge which was made sharper by Democratic National Chairman J. Howard McGrath, who, speaking for himself, said that there would be no compromise with the South...