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...WESTERN EUROPE. Soon after World War II, Western Europe seemed ripe for Communism. Yet France has not had a Communist in its Cabinet since May 1947; the Italian Communist Party, biggest in the West, has shrunk from a peak of 2,500,000 to 1,700,000 last year. Economically, Free Europe is in an unprecedented boom and moving toward political unity-the result of a remarkable alliance between capitalism and democratic socialism. All of this confounds Leninist-Stalinist dogma, which in 1952 predicted that the industrially advanced nations would destroy themselves in a shooting war over foreign markets...
...play by Leonid Andreyev. He wrote The Crucible in one year, in the study of his 14-room house in Nyack, N.Y., and just finished in time. As curtain time approached, he was feeding the score to the singers five pages at a clip. The time is ripe for good opera, Ward believes, but he deplores the tendency-exemplified in Alban Berg's Wozzeck-to shift the dramatic emphasis from singers to orchestra. "Everything must happen in the voice," says Ward. "Opera belongs on the stage, not in the orchestra...
...room. Even worse are the unnoticed cracks and chips on glass containers that may indicate the presence of broken glass in the contents...Metal containers with sharp raw edges should be corrected, and this includes the razorlike edge on the lids of open cans. The field here is ripe for a revolution in both can and can-opener design. Also, isn't there a better way to open evaporated milk cans than with an ice pick...
...hour was ripe for another daily, and in 1882 the first issues of a vigorous new paper, the Harvard Journal, appeared. The CRIMSON and the Journal took an early liking to each other, and in 1883 the two merged as the Herald-Crimson, then later the Daily Crimson, and finally in 1891, simply the CRIMSON...
...neck and jutting nose. Rooney at 38 resembles an enraged pygmy rhino, a pint-pot Wallace Beery. His talent resembles Beery's, too, in its sock-simple vulgarity, its feisty fecundity. He is one of the great hams of the age, and life seems to have smoked him ripe...