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Kenneth Roberts came across this diary while researching his latest novel, Lydia Bailey (TIME, Jan. 6), and got all excited about it. Written in French, and almost unknown in the U.S., the diary was a sophisticated study, by an observant French emigre, of the callow U.S. of the 1790s. Roberts persuaded his wife to translate it and polished the translation himself. First of Moreau de St. Méry's many works to be put into English, it is not to be compared for literary quality to the contemporary notes of another French traveler, Chateaubriand. But it introduces...
...first comparatively unknown to undergraduates at large and, as he admits, by no means certain of his ability to cope with the busy job of "doaning", Dean Hanford has been able, from his position as middleman between students and Faculty, to strengthen "respect for scholarship" in the former and to increase the effective energy of the latter...
Drama. Eugene O'Neill's first play in twelve years, The Iceman Cometh, was second-rate O'Neill, but even so, added stature to the season. So did Another Part of the Forest, without being entirely first-rate Lillian Hellman. Meanwhile, a virtually unknown playwright, Arthur Miller, won the Drama Critics' award, with All My Sons...
...concept of the chiin-tzu-the good man ruling by superior talents and morality-is not unknown in other times and places. When the Scranton anthracite fields were locked in the great strike of 1902, a spokesman for the operators wrote: "The rights and interests of the laboring man will be protected and cared for-not by the labor agitators, but by the Christian men to whom God has given control of the property rights of the country. . . ." Such remnants of U.S. Confucianism, however, have gone underground...
Compared to Hollywood's top moviemakers, Rank's technical knowledge of moviemaking is but little past the Brownie-camera stage. Partly for that reason, but mostly because he believes in "creative immunity," he gives his writer-producer-director teams their heads. They have a freedom unknown in Hollywood's major studios...