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Daughters of Atreus (by Robert Turney; Delos Chappell, producer) is a high-minded, somewhat arty, occasionally tedious and pictorially beautiful synthesis of several Greek legends of family murder, with each of its three acts corresponding to a whole play as handled by Euripides and Aeschylus. It is the first produced...
Son of a Welsh ironworker, Emlyn Williams, 30, retains a trace of Welsh accent. He spoke no English until he was 8 or 9, went to Oxford at 17 on a scholarship, saw a Somerset Maugham play which dissipated his notions of becoming a schoolteacher. Emlyn Williams has written five...
Today the higher schools leave too many of their students in the condition of a man gorged with countless courses, no one of which is digested. The mean, as President Conant declares, should be simplified. We need to reach a point, as he says, where we shall be concerned with...
Union is the first to strive, without discrimination of sex or race, affluence or position, to produce not merely an intelligentsia but a cultivated nation"); 4) a bureaucracy manned largely by unpaid volunteers; 5) "the vocation of leadership" supplied by the Communist Party; 6) the cult of science (unlike those...
Some matters like television and smoke elimination are already overdue, while others such as the synthesis of living matter and the explanation of old age may not be realized for thousands of years. Thus, despite his title, it is no cocky portrait of 2035 that Author Furnas paints. "We cannot...