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Latin American bullfight fans have long claimed that there is a simple and sinister explanation for the strange behavior of Spanish matadors, so daring at home, often so cautious on tours abroad. The explanation: bull handlers in Spain soften up the bulls beforehand by trimming their horns. Last week aficionados on both sides of the Atlantic were embroiled in hot debate-and the Latin Americans had confirmation of their darkest suspicions-after a series of revelations by no less an authority than Antonio Bienvenida, rated among Spain's top ten matadors...
...overnight change would be harmful. The Department of Justice, as a "friend of the court," reminded the Justices that the court often provides for "gradual relocation" in its sweeping antitrust decrees. N.A.A.C.P. Lawyer Marshall suggested that, once the principle of non-segregation is established, the Southern school boards might soften the blow by redistricting (as does many a Northern school board) so that most Negroes would attend one school and most whites another. (This proposal Frankfurter contemptuously rated as "gerrymandering.") How thorny the Supreme Court may find the problem was indicated last week as the Justices disappeared behind their...
Charles L. Kuhn, associate professor of Fine Arts and curator of the Museum since 1930, has tried to soften the strong diet of medieval art in the Museum with exhibitions of modern European work. Last year, designs of the famous Bauhaus school lined the wall. Modern Swiss paintings and a major exhibition of Scandinavian industrial art are planned for this year...
...prestige. Herbert Morrison would continue on as Attlee's deputy leader in the House of Commons. "I will allow no bitterness to poison my soul," Morrison told the conference, in a moving speech which earned him renewed respect. The shock of the Bevan victory had already begun to soften...
...chief difference between writing criticism for TIME and for other publications, he believes, springs from the anonymity of the writer. "In a signed review," he says, "the personal intrusions soften the tone. Everything in TIME is sharper and more emphatic." Even so, he says, every critic is human, and brings to the theater his own preferences and dislikes. Some don't like mystery stories, for instance. Kronenberger does. But he dislikes "what is sometimes called 'theater'-the spectacle with no meat on its bones. Generally speaking, the important thing in a play is what you hear...