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Mencken was an editor of surpassing skill, a journalist of scintillating brilliance, a rare humorist and a savage critic. For years he was the brightest star on the Baltimore Sunpapers. He was the forward lance in the march of American letters from John Fox Jr. (The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come) to Sinclair Lewis, helped kill off much of the trash in American writing. Many of the best U.S. writers of the century (Lewis, Dreiser, Cather, Pound. Fitzgerald) were discovered or trundled by Mencken in his happy days as co-editor (with George Jean Nathan) of the Smart...
...manuscripts known as the "Dead Sea Scrolls," found almost nine years ago by a shepherd in a Jordan cave (TIME, Sept. 5, 1955), have raised some haunting questions. Is there any relation between the first Christians and a sect of Jews who founded a religious community at Qumrân in Jordan a hundred years before Christ? Is there any relation between Jesus Christ and the Qumrân community's "Teacher of Righteousness"? These questions constitute the great cliff hanger of contemporary Christian studies. Last week fresh hints came from John Allegro, a lecturer in Semitic Philology...
...saga of the Scythian shepherd who vaultingly subdued half of Asia and Africa is too brutally simple for true drama. With its host of bloody conquests and dearth of inner conflict, with its portrayal of one who toppled realms like tenpins, it scarcely provides even variations on a single theme. As Tamburlaine sweeps on, nothing interrupts his conquests and cruelties but his Marlovian sense of physical beauty and his feeling for Zenocrate, the captive princess whom he loved and lost...
Situated between Dunster and Leverett Houses, the area is bounded by Cowperthwaite, DeWolfe, and Grant Streets. "This is the logical place for Harvard's future expansion," Shepherd Brown '50, agent for the University's property managers, Hunnemann & Co., said last night...
...Lehmann is well borne out by the series' first published volume -No. 12, Luther's commentaries on selected Psalms. In his thoughts on the 23rd Psalm ("The Lord is my Shepherd"), Luther uses King David's great song as a commentary against what he considered a major evil of the Roman Catholic Church he knew...