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...board to judge them, the audience settles back to relish the play's meatiest, juiciest moments. But they are also its weakest: the inquisitor is too whimsically conceived, vice is too glibly punished, virtue too sentimentally recompensed. Perhaps a better artist (though a less canny storyteller) would have rung down his curtain as his characters, in bewilderment and trepidation, reached the threshold of their eternal home. It takes at least a Dante to draw a convincing diagram of Hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Old Play in Manhattan: Jan. 2, 1939 | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

...hold on the westward slope of Changkufeng. Russia agreed to submit final ownership to arbitration, thus gave up her previous absolute claim to Changkufeng. For this truce Japan last week was ready to pay off in kudos. Tokyo dispatches prophesied the forthcoming promotion of Ambassador Shigemitsu to the highest rung in the Japanese diplomatic ladder, Ambassador to London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN-RUSSIA: Up & Out | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

...Class of 1942 the Crimson editors extend a most hearty welcome. Although it is always sad to see a class graduate, it is perennially pleasant to receive the new one, for by replacing the other it preserves the four-rung ladder of Harvard undergraduate education. As the newest part in this old instrument, which swings with each year's fresh win yet is braced by the soundness gained from the past, you Freshmen are obliged to reflect on what you will do to make the rung sturdy and lasting. Because not only is the future of Harvard dependent on your...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO 1942 | 9/1/1938 | See Source »

...sufficiently sentimental to be a popular choice; they have a certain dexterity and gloss, often substituted for technical superiority and thought, easily overcoming the defences of mediocre critics, but they are hopelessly trivial. These triumphs in the treble of Marya Zaturenska and the glibness of Robert Hillyer have evidently rung louder in the cars of the Pulitzer Committee in recent years than the works of such really outstanding American poets as Tate, Stevens, Eberhart and Ransom, all of whom are of immeasurably greater stature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BLIND SHALL LEAD | 5/13/1938 | See Source »

...damage, however, was done. Not a newspaper in Catholic Austria* mentioned the Cardinal's about-face. And arriving back in Vienna, he had a swastika flag run up on old St. Stephen's Cathedral-just as he had had its bells rung when Hitler entered the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Political Catholicism | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

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