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...most of the civilian students and forced the suspension or modification of their normal undergraduate activities. The resumption of customary College life after the War seems, then, the logical jumping-off point for this article--especially since the history of Harvard theatre up to the War has been retold many times, while its course from the War to the present has not yet been chronicled...
...wonderful sense of humor-if only they were not so serious about it. This picture, adapted from the last novel published by the late Thomas Mann, is a classic instance of deutscher Witz: a good joke, badly told but brilliantly explained, heartily laughed at by the teller, laboriously retold from several other angles, and reduced, in conclusion, to its philosophic essence. In this case, unfortunately, the essence is a dull epigram. "Love the world," Mann's hero cries, "and the world will love you." The statement expresses the mercantile theory of morals, and Mann's man (Henry Bookholt...
Buried 2,000 Years: The Dead Sea Scrolls (CBS's Armstrong Circle Theater), laced with film clips of monotonous desert vistas and sun-scorched hills, of "the sweet water of Galilee" and frenzied rioting in Palestine, retold the story of Hebrew Archaeologist Eleazar Sukenik's brave struggle to spirit the first of the ancient parchments through the barbed-wire barricades of hostile Arabs. But the crucial events that led to the archaeological find of the century and the evaluation of the Scrolls' significance to the history of Judaism and Christianity were too complex to be tailored skillfully...
...seems to suffer from a continuing compulsion to act like an author. After Amber, she took a whack at fictionalized autobiography (Star Money) and fantasy (The Lovers), and flubbed both. Her latest offering, a raffish account of a smalltown childhood, sounds like a Booth Tarkington novel as retold by Erskine Caldwell. In the Winsor world, the war between the sexes starts early, and the casualty lists are stupendous. One of the combatants is Ruby, who at 16 already has "a rather sagging and accessible look, as if defeat would be natural to her." Ruby wanders into a blackberry patch with...
...fairy tale flashing with all the diamond glint of palaces and courtiers, a horror story of human cruelty and blood. The combination is so compelling that the life of the lovely Austrian princess who lived an infuriatingly frivolous life and died an endearingly brave death can be told and retold with remarkably little attention to the social upheaval that doomed...