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...very much impressed by the prayer of an unknown Confederate soldier quoted by you in the Jan. 2 issue. I should like to know something about the poem's source. How does anyone know that it was written by a Confederate soldier, and so forth? Where is it on record...
...case Ike does not run. Had he thought of what New York's ex-Governor Tom Dewey might do in the campaign? Said Ike: "I have not-this is the first time I have thought of it." His brother Milton? "If he has any political ambition, it is unknown to me." Had he meant to oppose Chief Justice Earl Warren as a possible candidate in a press conference two weeks before (TIME, Feb. 6). "Oppose? For goodness sake. I appointed him as Chief Justice . . . There are many ways in which he could be a candidate. And if he were...
...preconceptions are too strong, if the reader cannot make the transfer from the unknown to supernaturalism, from alien cultures to elves and orcs, he finds the entire saga meaningless. The cult which has already surrounded the book testifies, however, to the number of readers who find the system not only credible, but often more realistic than their own perceptions...
...marked by uncertainty: first, in the incredible scramble by the Bedouin to find them; later, in determining their ultimate ownership; and still later, in assuring their authenticity. How much of the vast Essene library was lost by idle tribesmen, who neither understood nor cared for the Scrolls' significance, is unknown. Scholars hope that most of the scraps have been collected. Many pieces were returned when the Jordan Government's Department of Antiquities boosted its rate per square centimeter. Legally, all the Scrolls became the Department's property on discovery; it could later dispose of the antiquities as it wished...
Alabama Mama. The record includes songs from other Weill musicals that are virtually unknown in the U.S., most of them close echoes of Threepenny Opera tunes. Composer Weill (who died in the U.S. in 1950) grew lyrical, sentimental and popular in such musicals as Lady in the Dark and Lost in the Stars. But in this album he is still the unreconstructed composer of gutter nihilisms. In one ditty. Singer Lenya is a bitter, jilted girl who snarls at her indifferent lover: "Take that pipe out of your kisser, you dog!" In the chilling Berlin Requiem she sings the horrifying...