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...most squalidly dull-thud variety of pun. Both these latter qualities are prominently on display in Princess Ida. Moreover, some mad infatuation (something, perhaps, to do with the Tennyson poem of which Ida is a parody) led him to cast the thing in blank verse, of the sort Shaw must have had in mind when he said that blank verse was easier to write than prose. On the other hand, Gilbert was a master of his own peculiar medium, and between the gaps there is some pretty good stuff and not a little absolutely splendid stuff. His exposition...
...interest in Advanced Placement exams to exempt students from General Education courses. The compromise between "liberal education" and a modified distribution requirement which is the foundation of the General Education program is so uneasy that any attempt to disturb it will encounter opposition from some quarter, and any sort of exemption would require a revision of basic philosophy...
...young French soldiers fighting in Algeria, "to kill becomes a normal game," and conventional rules of warfare are soon forgotten. So testified 35 troubled French army officers last week. They were soldiers of an unusual sort-Roman Catholic priests who as army reservists called to active duty are serving in Algeria not as chaplains but as line officers...
...putting the shot in grammar school, started to show real promise at North Phoenix High School under Track Coach Vernon Wolfe, onetime University of Southern California pole vaulter. Wolfe put him to work lifting weights, had him study movies of O'Brien ("You might say he was a sort of hero of mine then." says Dallas). Slowly he mastered O'Brien's 180° body-spin delivery. Despite the fact that he was picked as an all-state tackle, Long gave up football his senior year to concentrate on the shot. Says Wolfe: "It was quite...
...Kafka, Camus and Graham Greene. His other major interest, surprising for a Baptist, is liturgy. Said he last week: "I believe the act of worship is the church's most distinctive contribution to society. There is no other source of power which will enable society to achieve any sort of unity...