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...Supreme Court's ruling on prayers in New York public schools was the subject of sober editorials, ecclesiastical pronouncements and heated conversations-and universally over looked by all concerned was a crucial footnote in Justice Black's majority decision. Quoted in "To Stand as a Guarantee" in THE NATION...
Richard II is the first instalment in Shakespeare's tetralogical study in the essence of the art of kingship. The play is not people with good guys and bad guys; it is a sober study in greys. Richard's downfall is, perhaps, not really tragic (for one thing, he enjoys it too much); but it is pathetic. The true tragedy is that almost all the characters, mixtures of good and bad, are by their circumstances prevented from making the most of their innate potentialities. They are the right people in the wrong place or the wrong time. or both...
...grown-up boy who has ever talked with the other fellas in the locker room has heard tales about B-girls-those satin cheats whose barstool love costs a fortune in fake champagne and broken promises. But last week the Senate's Permanent Investigations Subcommittee began a sober study: "What do you mean by 'B-drinking'?" asked pious Chairman John McClellan. In four days of outraged testimony, he learned the whole old story...
...work is a bigger book, although not perhaps a bigger or better picture. Letting Go is a long, sober novel, mostly about the uncertainties of the university young (some Jewish, some gentile, none religious). Despite serious flaws, it is one of the better works of fiction published this year. The author's eye and ear have few equals, and on every page the reader knows that he is in the presence of a writer...
...language turned more sober and more exact, his vision faded; there is no poem in the final five volumes of his work that states the workings of the metaphysical-symbolic eye so well as "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," a poem from his first collection...