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Breaking away from Geneva's torpid air, U.S. Secretary of State Christian Herter flew to West Berlin last week to reassure 2,200,000 West Berliners that the U.S. had not forgotten its "binding commitment" to save them from Communist slavery. Said Herter: "I know that the people of West Berlin regard our troops and those of France and the United Kingdom as defenders of their freedom. I know, too, that the presence of these troops-which will be preserved-is indispensable to that freedom...
...faintest of traces. Last week Archaeologist Brian Hope-Taylor reported the discovery and exploration of the biggest early Anglo-Saxon structure yet found in Britain-one of the rectangular great halls described in Beowulf, where a leader's thegns gathered to tell tall stories or quaff themselves torpid on mead or beer...
...finest play, Saint Joan is yet one of his most uneven. The first third is little more than competent chronicle play; it is not till the second third that it becomes vibrantly Shavian; and not till the final third that it grows demonstrably great. At the Phoenix a generally torpid production stressed the play's long, slow climb before achieving-in the Trial Scene and the Epilogue-one of the great peaks of 20th century stage writing...
...minutes of regulation play they played fine, hustling soccer. Just after Swanson had kicked his second goal at 18:35 of the third period, Munro sent in Shad Tubman at center forward and Jim Shue at inside right. The torpid attack came to life. In 250 seconds the Crimson had made the score 2 to 3 as Tubman scored by converting a corner kick from McIntosh, playing outside left...
Missing Spark. Meanwhile, the art of the churches, predominant in Western culture for the first 18 centuries of Christian history, lies torpid. A French Dominican friar named Marie-Alain Couturier put the situation even more bluntly. Shortly before his own death this year, Father Couturier wrote that "Christian art is dead...