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Died. Mrs. Lilian Janet Morley, 73; after long illness; in Baltimore. Widow of Johns Hopkins Professor Frank Morley, she was the mother of three Rhodes Scholars: wambling Litterateur Christopher Darlington (Saturday Review of Literature); Felix Muskett, editor of the Washington Post; Frank Vigor, member of the London publishing house, Faber & Faber...
...Conant--in the first two years of college. The Council committee feels, however, that this is bitter but necessary--the price of a truly liberal education. Its "area" courses are not to be superficial survey courses; they will aim to be penetrating, comprehensive courses, possessing all the thoroughness and vigor or History I, and backed up by essay-type examinations instead of the true-false exercises necessary in an overly broad "civilization" course...
...Wood, president of Sears, Roebuck & Co. Last March when business appeasement was in the wind Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins invited him to Washington as a special adviser. Since then Harry Hopkins has been ill, and appeasement in U. S. politics like appeasement in European politics, has lost its vigor. Last week, as even hoped-for revision of deterrent corporate taxes disappeared (see p. 17), General Wood left the wings without going on stage and returned to his desk in Chicago...
...once Sick Man of Europe has acquired such youthful vigor in the last 15 years that Turkey now has some 500 military airplanes and a standing Army of 200,000 well-trained men. Mistress of the heavily fortified Dardanelles and Bosporus, Turkey is an ally worth having, and the Turkish signature to the British-inspired Peace Front was a shock to former Ally Germany...
...whole will provide ample food for thought in a surprisingly forceful manner for anyone interested in deciphering the hieroglyphics of contemporary European trends in art. Obvious lack of feeling is the essential characteristic of most of the pictures. But in place of deep and reverberating content, harshness and vigor often bordering on sensationalism is found. Head of a Woman, by Nolde, a blatant example of art at its lowest point, is a brazen conglomeration of bright colors and an embodiment of a cynical and completely unsympathetic point of view. If all aesthetic standards, sensitive taste, and a feeling for harmony...