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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seeds of Contemplation (New Directions; $3) is already riding to a whacking success in the high-altitude wake of an earlier book, The Seven Storey Mountain (TIME, Oct. 11), by the same young Trappist monk. Both books are the work of 34-year-old Thomas Merton, who has retired from the world to live under a monastic rule so strict that it forbids even the self-indulgence of talking. Trendspotters have begun to wonder whether some of the U.S. reading public, in its search for peace, subconsciously wishes it could follow...
...years, William Grant Still has had as much success with his symphonies, symphonic poems, ballets and chamber works as other U.S. composers (TIME, June 7) and certainly more than any other Negro composer. Nonetheless, he felt there was one unresolved dissonance. "All my life," says he, "my aim has been opera...
...stock of the moviemakers' problems, FORTUNE added its voice to an old lament by the critics: the industry is passing up a good bet by producing little to interest the 40 million Americans (mostly over 30) who only occasionally go to the movies. Pointing to the box-office success of Henry V and Hamlet, FORTUNE said: "The audience that made these pictures successful is the market that the industry generally ignores . . . Many good pictures made in Hollywood have shown a loss, and discouraged the producer. But they were never really sold, or they were sold to the wrong audience...
Daniel B. Ray '49 of Brooklyn, New York won the Henry Russell Shaw Fellowship, which was created to enable a graduate who showed a promise of success in a professional or business career to travel in Europe...
...success of Senate 5 would be a big defeat for Massachusetts people in the struggle to gain and preserve institutions for good city government...