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...Andrei Vishinsky had fun with the Danube last week. He swam in it, fixed Soviet trade domination over it and turned the Danube conference into a thoroughfare for Soviet propaganda. He was able to steal the show because the Western powers missed a tailor-made chance to unfold point by point Russia's responsibility for the grave economic plight of her satellites...
There were many in Japan who claimed they had heard the noise or knew a friend who had, but to be really sure a poet had to go by dawn to the side of a Tokyo swamp and sit for three long hours while the pink and white blossoms unfold, waiting tensely for the moment when the bud burst open to the morning light. It took a discerning ear to separate the sound of an opening lotus from the purl of a fish lazily waking to his morning meal or the plip of a dewdrop on a mossy stone...
...TIME considered Abdullah the key figure to the unlocking of the British mandate. The rise of the state of Israel is another story, now beginning to unfold...
...point of view of form, this produces a mixture. The piece is kept from the oratorio class precisely by its subject, which is too eventful and dramatically intense for an oratorio. One cannot help wishing for a physical reaction from the characters as the events of the tragedy unfold: but all they do is stand there and sing...
...Connor's stories are set in small Irish towns where good-natured, bumbling provincials doze through their days in even rhythms, scarcely touched by the frenetic spleen of cosmopolitan existence, and only occasionally shaken into surprised awareness of life's complexities. While these neat tales unfold, Author O'Connor remains in the background, rarely moralizing...