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The Heritage. What is this Europe that once more-this time with U.S. help and encouragement-gropes for unification? It is not actually a continent; it is a relatively small peninsula of vast Eurasia. It is marked off from Asia not by geography but by its heritage: Greek art and...
Died. Maude Howe Elliott, 93, last survivor of the four daughters of Julia Ward Howe (Battle Hymn of the Republic), civic leader and chronicler of Newport, R.I.; in Newport. Existing in a climate of literary and artistic success all her life, she gained recognition herself by writing the minor sagas...
Only Fit for a Saga. Like Pytheas, the Vikings, who roamed from Novaya Zemlya and Spitsbergen to Greenland and Newfoundland, were too far ahead of their time. By the15th Century, when their own exploratory impetus was spent, their Arctic trade-routes and their flourishing Greenland colonies had become mere fantastic...
The Struggle with the Angel. Malraux had been one of revolution's fighting angels, whose sanguinary sagas related Communism's sweaty glories in China, in Germany, in Spain (Days of Wrath, Man's Fate, Man's Hope).
Review week at the University Theater consists of exhuming eight movies that might just as well have remained in their graves. Though they were all successful pictures, only one, "The Green Years," struggles along a little above mediocrity. Evenly divided between long, sentimental sagas and standard musicals, this is a...