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He has the Englishman's dislike of moral passion in foreign affairs. The Foreign Office prides itself on its practicality and puts its faith in adjustments, not solutions. In the U.S., Eden's prestige hit a low point during last summer's Geneva conference. Three months later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sir Anthony Eden: The Man Who Waited | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

While unusually skillful in difficult modern styles, the singers gave the early music somewhat second-hand treatment. Two choruses by Schutz and Sweelinek exhibited some of the worst tenor tone the Glee Club has ever offered. The sound of Carissimi's Jepthe seemed much richer, but it was still only...

Author: By Robert M. Simon, | Title: Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society | 3/31/1955 | See Source »

Far from wholly trusting their Russian wartime comrades, Churchill and Roosevelt did not even trust each other. Roosevelt and many of his entourage believed that there would indeed be a postwar struggle. They saw the antagonists as Communist Russia and imperialist Britain. Roosevelt saw his own role as balancing between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Yalta Story: The Peace Was Lost By Ignoring Justice And the Facts of Life | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

The only work of fiction in i.e. is an except entitled The Baumans from Hona Karmel's forthcoming novel. Miss Karmel's story deals with the survivors of the Nazi ghettos in post-war Poland; it evokes as well the experience of the ghetto itself, and of the pre-war...

Author: By Alexander Gelley, | Title: i.e., The Cambridge Review | 3/25/1955 | See Source »

Bad Day at Black Rock can receive little credit for originality, since it shows strong influences of such predecessors as High Noon and The Gunfighter. But if the psychological western has now become a movie form of its own, Bad Day is an entertaining and skillful contribution to the genre...

Author: By Ralph A. Austen, | Title: Bad Day at Black Rock | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

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