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...continent where complex constitutional problems breed and sting like mosquitoes, no place has a more complex problem than Nyasaland. A British protectorate, Nyasaland is a stringbean sliver of hills whose 2,720,000 African inhabitants are desperately determined to dissolve their homeland's 1953 forced merger with the two Rhodesias into the white-dominated Central African Federation. Fortnight ago, when delegates from Nyasaland and Britain sat down in London's ornate Lancaster House to debate a new deal for the little land, experts predicted failure. Peppery little Dr. Hastings Banda, idol of Nyasaland blacks, had threatened to walk...
Dehn rewrites Oklahoma! in the Chekhov manner ("0 what a beautiful mournin' ") or when S. J. Perelman asks once again, "Odets where is thy sting?" and proves the superiority of one who knows that he is a clown to one who does not. College instructors should perhaps prescribe the book as esthetic therapy. Not that even today's sophomores are likely to lose their critical faculties over a ghost of the '30s like Clifford Odets; nor. as E. B. White proves in a one-page version of Somerset Maugham, is the jejune quality of the Old Party...
...crushing 236-170 defeat of the bill by the Democratic-controlled House. Surprise defectors were big-city Democrats, who have for years gone along with the farm bloc on high-price supports as a matter of party loyalty. But this year urbanized Congressmen have been feeling the sting of voters who blame the wheat farm-subsidy scandal for the rising cost of living. New England Democrats went solidly against the wheat bill, with the exception of Massachusetts' John McCormack, floor leader, and Connecticut's Chester Bowles, Democratic-convention-platform committee chairman. Only four of Pennsylvania...
...followers are Negroes; and though the lightskinned, hazel-eyed Powell has represented himself in the past as the grandson of a branded slave, he now says he is not a Negro (his grandmother, he says, was a Cherokee Indian, his other grandparents white). Most of his constituents know the sting of poverty; Powell has never lacked money. His mother, Mattie Powell, was an illegitimate heiress of the Schaefer brewing fortune, according to her son, and his father dabbled in Harlem real estate and was the pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church, with the largest Protestant congregation in the world (present...
...grace-especially needed by a missionary -to keep his heart in heaven and his feet firmly planted on the ground. In / Corinthians, after his wise and tolerant sermon on the diversity of spiritual gifts, after his famed passage on love and a triumphant challenge to death ("Where is thy sting?"), he ends with a matter-of-fact "Now concerning the collection...