Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...liked the idea-but nearly all of them accepted it as law. Then upon Clinton descended Demagogue Frederick John Kasper, 27, a Washington, D.C. bookseller (now free on $10,000 bond while a contempt-of-court conviction is being appealed), to breathe racial fire into the quiet town. The vast majority of Clintonians remained willing to obey the law. But some followed Kasper, set themselves up as an obscene, stone-throwing vigilante group, drove the Negro children from Clinton high school (TIME, Sept...
...ANATOMY OF NATURE, by Andreas Feininger (168 pp.; Crown: $5.95).These pictures of a great photographer prove that the camera eye has better vision than the human eye. A celestial galaxy is caught, and a sense of vast mystery with it; a nautilus in cross section conveys the wonder of architecture in a simple skeleton. Technically remarkable...
...Sinai was an advance base for the Communists, as shown by the vast amounts of Soviet supplies, and by destroying this, Israel has for the time being helped to save the Middle East from Russian domination...
...reporter of facts, he has another, this time to the drama as an art form. Critics are, or should be, something of a conscience for the actors and producers and playwrights who make up the theatre. That Mr. Bentley can claim to be, for he has a vast knowledge of the theatre, both practical as director and translator (though, it should be mentioned, with mixed success), and theoretical, as a professor. He brings all his knowledge to bear in his reviews, which, as is appropriate to a voice of conscience, are often most annoying--to the people whom they criticize...
...book, which follows another vast, able biography by St. John Ervine (TIME, Sept. 24), contains much that is new, from correspondence with Sidney and Beatrice Webb to Shaw's own words-enough of them to fill an ordinary volume. It is as thoroughly documented for the time when Shaw was a Dublin clerk as for the time of his London preeminence. Yet the total effect is one of mystery. All his life Shaw shouted his ideas from the world's rooftops. But even an "authorized" biographer like Archibald Henderson is full of hesitancies in deciding which of Shaw...