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There is no hero-merely one character who, by chance, survives most of the others. Like the rest, Lieut. Hans Teichmann is sketchily drawn; nothing is told of his background, and-except for his sensations when he is drunk, or in rut, or in pain-little of his thoughts. He is brave; some of the others are cowardly, but courage and the lack of it do not matter; nor does brutality or kindness. The meaninglessness of war swallows everything. West German Novelist Ott is writing about men engulfed by the dark millennium Yeats foretold when "Things fall apart; the centre...
Thanks for Prince Philip on the cover. As much as I admire the Queen and follow her travels, I am usually disappointed to find there is very little mention of Philip. Thanks for not keeping in the same rut as the other magazines...
...Congress Party is weak and getting weaker." While his sweating partymen squirmed in their chairs, Nehru lashed out at party factionalism, internal squabbles, the ever-widening gap between the party and the people. "Our strong point," said Nehru, "is the past. Unless we get out of our present rut, the Congress Party is doomed...
Absence of any real controversy probably means only that The Harvard Union, both as an idea and as a building, has settled into a comfortable rut; Gen. Ed. A Offices replace the eighteen-table poolroom in the basement, and a broom-closet replaces The Harvard Monthly on the top floor. Harvard Utility has conquered "Harvard Democracy...
...situations are seldom better than the lines, being funny mainly when the action is slapstick--a plant suddenly sprouting in joyful abundance all over the stage is the most bearable example. But the author occasionally leaps out of his verbal rut to pierce a pet political balloon very neatly: "Senator Cotton Joe Somethingorother is in the hospital." "Disease serious?" "Senility." "Then how can he be chairman of our committee?" Seniority." But originality is not rampant even here. Nowhere in the play is the humor more than mildly reminiscent of author John Patrick's lighthearted previous creation, Teahouse of the August...