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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pots, returning at dusk to sell their lobsters to the companies for ten pesos (30?) apiece. For the fishermen and their families, life in the Juan Fernández is monotonous and lonely, and the sea is full of danger. Even so, they say, they prefer it to the unknown risks of life "on the continent...
...Yeats's The Land of Heart's Desire, excerpts from André Gide's Journals. It contains masterpieces like Ivan Bunin's Gentleman from San Francisco and unfamiliar stories like Roger Martin Du Card's smoldering Confidence Africaine. Examples of the work of writers unknown in the U.S. (e.g., Chilean Poetess Gabriela Mistral and Finnish Novelist Frans Eemil Sillanpää) are alone enough to make it a valuable book...
...homely virtue of Raimu, once more triumphant over youthful indiscretion. Whether or not such repetition dulls French sensibilities, however, the lack of such basic themes in the Hollywood (or British) repertoire will insure a warm reception here, especially since that theme has been thoroughly seasoned with earthy humor unknown to the conventional dramatist and with backgrounds totally devoid of artificiality. Incidentally, the English titling is excellent...
...Unknown. In Brighton, England, Zoo Keeper Peter Gibbs banged his head on a metal post, fell into a monkey cage, woke up shortly to find one of the animals seated on his chest, delightedly twirling his 15-inch mustaches...
Despite the idealist label attached to this program, none of the elements in it is revolutionary or unknown at Harvard. General Education courses have shown the way toward substitution of papers for examinations. Conference groups are in use here and in large numbers of other United States colleges. Group tutorial has been tried successfully in the Social Relations Department and others...