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...Phenix has denounced the one great fundamental of education as the snake that has led us all to doom. Somehow he fails to see that self-realization, far from being morally shallow and a goal that produces "a democracy of desire," is the one most noble and difficult task of our lives. To Phenix, self-fulfillment is equated with selfish ambition, acquisition and success. It is obvious that he has distorted the meaning of fulfillment...
Brecht on Brecht. The phone is a coiled snake, and the woman (Viveca Lindfors) picks it up fatalistically, as if she had already been poisoned by its venom. Her manner is calm, but her voice is brittle with inner hysteria. She cancels a bridge date, calls off a movie date. The talk is bright and chatty, but these are not social calls. The woman is foreclosing her life...
...served as house comic in a burlesque hall, gave a snake-oil spiel for a stunt-driving show, and worked the circuit as a comic diver-but when he was ordered to plunge 90 ft. into a 7-ft. tub of water, he quit, saying "Look. I'm getting $16 a week, and that won't even pay for the iodine." His first big-time comedian's job came at Manhattan's Club 18. a downstairs bin where everybody on the staff took part in the act. even the waiters and chef. One day Hollywood...
...varsity track team overwhelmed M.I.T., 76 1/2 to 27 1/2, last night, in an absolutely overwhelming meet in the Snake Pit. Coach Bill McCurdy was saving his front-line performers for Saturday's epochal clash with Manhattan, so the times, heights, and distances were none too great. But then, they didn't have...
...this week in New Delhi. It is the third Assembly of the World Council of Churches. Behind all the well-organized confusion - the hustling to and fro between auditorium and committee room, the 15,000 sheet daily blizzard of mimeographed paper, the lost traveler's checks, the distracting snake charmers and the non stop talking across language barriers - a vast regrouping of Christendom seems to be taking shape. One veteran churchman. President Henry Pitney Van Dusen of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, believes that "we are seeing right here one of the very early events in the second...