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...collaborationists. The French people were divided, however, into those who found the play "fascist" and those who found it "antifascist." Thus Anouilh would seem to have achieved a good deal of the "negative capability" that Keats attributed to Shakespeare. And it is true that Anouilh did not stack the cards strongly in Antigone's favor as Sophocles had; a number of people even stoutly maintain that Creon is the true protagonist and hero of the work...
...library's four levels will probably be divided evenly between Widener and Houghton. Widener's two floors will include not only stack space but also faculty studies and stalls for use by graduate students. All four levels will be equipped with temperature and humidity controls...
...needs outside help to finish the job. After finding the cache of stolen rockets in the defunct volcano, he is captured. As Blofeld prepares to annihilate him, hundreds of Japanese commandos-the Eastern equivalent of the U.S. cavalry-come to the rescue. At the finale, the volcano blows its stack. Alas, the effects are ineffective. The outer-space sequences would be more appropriate in a grade school educational short entitled Our Amazing Universe, and the volcanic climax is a series of clumsy process shots that no one took the trouble...
Dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smoke stack...
Editorial Economy. In the preface to his chronology of practically everything, Williams explains that he accumulated a stack of index slips that ran to 30 feet. Nobody can argue with his facts. What does seem regrettable is that he sometimes slights American achievements. Consider "Sport" in 1938: "Len Hutton scores 364 runs against Australia at the Oval Test Match (Aug.)." It would have only been cricket to add a separate-but-equal note reading: "Gabby Hartnett hits home run in the last of the ninth to give Chicago Cubs chance to win National League pennant (Sept...