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...IDEA OF NATIONAL INTEREST-Charles A. Beard-Macmillan ($3.75). Survey of U. S. diplomacy by a first-rate analytical skeptic...
...dramatic piece for the stage "Days Without End" is badly deficient. It is largely a desk revaluation of the whole life and experience of one man. The device of a mask is used to represent the rational self, the skeptic half, of John Loving. In the first three acts John discusses and debates the ending of his autobiographical novel with his dual self, with his uncle, a priest, and with his wife, Elsa. During his matrimonial happiness, John had once been faithless in a moment of pity for an abused woman. The dramatic point lies in the question of whether...
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...such a case argumentation is useless; against the hard shell of sincerity it can make no impress; to the skeptic it would be sadly bromidic. It is sufficient to draw the obvious analogy. To the average undergraduate, such a performance as the Rollins oath appears a trifle suggestively reminiscent of those faded, shrunken khaki dungarees once the foil for a pretty gilt badge...
...turned to Biblical and historical themes: Nicodemus, Sisera. Gideon, the Prodigal Son, Toussaint L'Ouverture, Ponce de Leon. Most of them are written in Robinson's familiar, intricately lucid blank verse. Of the lyrics, many a reader will prefer the verses on "Hector Kane." who, at 85, was still skeptical of the passage of time, died of a stroke in the midst of his skeptic's boast...