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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...First-Class Intelligence." Before Britain could go ahead on any front, Prime Minister Attlee had to break this mood which, in various shades of distempered grey, permeated the national life. In September he appointed Cripps Minister for Economic Affairs. Almost instantly political, economic and social forces began to regroup themselves, like iron filings when a magnet is held over them...
...Eighty pairs of Nylons from various well-wishers...
...Greene's "laboratory" is a guinea pig's eye. Delicately, he plants various types of foreign tissue in the pigs' eyes. Some "take" and grow. Sometimes the transplanted tissue becomes cancerous. Sometimes it develops the characteristics of functioning organs. Cancer specialists, who used to be skeptical, have begun to take a lively interest in Dr. Greene's work. Last week the doctor talked about it before a distinguished audience at the American Cancer Society's annual meeting in Manhattan...
...says, "Anyway, Joyce still forces his critics to perform their proper function. He demands that they understand completely his process of creation before they can understand his works." Well, although Green explains in a footnote that he composed his story in seven nights, and also gives thanks to various helpers, (e.g., "Merei Maria"), this critic professes to understand neither the process of creation nor the work. The story is well-written; there are constant allusions to Joyce, Eliot and others; the stream of consciousness device is made much use of; the piece concerns two characters working out their artistic...
...this drive he indicated that the Council would attempt to work hand in hand with leaders of the student governing bodies in the various graduate schools of the University, such as the Law School's Phillips Brooks Committee, the Business School Student Association, and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Advisory Council...