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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Acting out this world in English, then, is perhaps the only substitute for reading Sholom Aleichem in Yiddish, and it is improbable that anyone could put across the interpretation as well as Carnovsky does. He reaches the height of eloquence through silence, as Paul Richards did on a smaller scale in the first two works. At the end of the play Carnovsky sits and looks silently out over the audience, and one feels that the self-awareness that allowed him to laugh at his own predicaments now gives him courage in the face of God's all too evident ironies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The World of Sholom Aleichem | 11/27/1959 | See Source »

...President is attempting to make his country a world power. He attributed the recent atomic bomb tests in that country to this effort, but pointed out that France had so little money compared to the United States or Russia that even the idea of matching them on a nuclear scale was "absurd...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Expert Talks On De Gaulle | 11/24/1959 | See Source »

...necessity, any rejuvenation of geography must start on a small scale. Arthur A. Maass, chairman of the Faculty group, points out the difficulty of attracting any outstanding geographer to the University without providing him sufficient staff. The attempt should be made, however, to re-institute some sort of geographical instruction. Something would be far preferable to nothing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Good Earth | 11/24/1959 | See Source »

Trading Notes. Never before had a country off U.S. shores been as unfriendly as Louisiana-sized Cuba, which engaged the U.S. in full-scale diplomatic debate, taking obvious relish in every word. Off the presses of the Cuban Ministry of State rolled a 14-page color pamphlet, loaded with "atrocity" pictures and designed to prove that the U.S. was responsible for "bombing and strafing" Havana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Agenda: Trouble | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

Since most students aim to build up credit for Stateside colleges, only 500 have actually graduated. But more graduates are on the way. Maryland conducts full-scale commencements in Heidelberg (and Tokyo), with caps and gowns, a heady speech by the Governor of Maryland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Global Campus | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

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