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Brooklyn, Milwaukee, and New York, meanwhile, should finish second, third, and fourth in that order. The Dodgers will suffer from uncertain pitching and again infielders, the Braves from a lack of catchers to support Crandall and pitchers to supplement Spahn and Conley, and the Giants from Mays' human inability to do everything again. Willio, may be a great ballplayer, but he can't take ten years off the age of Sal Maglie...
...fully aware of Russia's policy of dividing the West. Although that policy failed to halt German rearmament, he said, "Let us not for a moment doubt that [the U.S.S.R.] will continue her efforts through other means. Let us not be disturbed by it. Let none of us suffer an inferiority complex because of it. Errors of judgment, mistakes in strategy and tactics are not prerogatives only of the Western powers. If the latter remain resolute and united, they can look forward to the future with confidence . . . To put it bluntly, our very survival is at stake...
Dark Night of the Soul. The life of contemplation has its occupational diseases. Sisters sometimes suffer shattering doubts about the genuineness of their vocation, or an onslaught of "scrupulosity"-obsession with insignificant imperfections that begin to loom like mortal sins. Most agonizing of all is spiritual dryness, analyzed by St. John of the Cross in his book, The Dark Night of the Soul. Without any apparent cause, all the warm joy and pleasure that the religious normally finds in prayer and the monastic routine suddenly disappears. As one contemporary has described it: "The entire spiritual world seems meaningless and unreal...
...incompatible? On closed-circuit TV, the Metropolitan Opera (TIME, Nov. 25) did poorly; championship prizefights, e.g., the Marciano-Charles bout (TIME, Sept. 27), fared better. With stepped-up promotion and the advent of color TV, can Broadway whet a new, nationwide appetite for the theater? Or will Broadway hits suffer on Broadway and on the road after being shown on TV? Said Trade Sheet Variety last week: "Whatever the effects, they loom as revolutionary...
...invariably assigned to live in Wigglesworth for in any other dormitory he has put down. Incoming freshmen who are familiar with Harvard through family or school background are usually aware of this Dean's Office idiosyncrasy. Thus they fill up the better dorms, while the uninitiated freshmen suffer. Fortunately this problem is easily solved. The Dean's Office need only state on its rooming blank that it will not honor any requests for specific dormitories...