Word: written
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Antigone of Jean Anouilh, who has as much right as anybody else to take and rework an old story in the public domain. If his Antigone is not the "Tragedy" he designated it, it is (even in the Lewis Galantiere translation) an intriguing, witty, almost moving work, written with the urbane tough-minded brilliance of which only the French seem to have the secret...
Setchkareff teaches courses on Russian literature and has written extensively on this subject. Weintraub, who has been at the University since 1950, is an authority on Polish civilization...
...leading Soviet Union historian who spent two days here last fall has written an article in a Russian historical journal praising Harvard's work in Soviet studies...
...sufficient incentive for murder. The second weakness was heavy reliance on three nurses, who gave testimony damaging to Dr. Adams; brilliant Defense Counsel Geoffrey Lawrence produced the actual sickroom records kept by the nurses, and the discrepancy between what they remembered six years later and what they had actually written down at the time rendered their evidence absurd. Finally, there was the medical mystery of the human constitution: were the injections excessive or were they reasonable to keep the patient comfortable? Were they fatal or would Mrs. Morell have died anyway? Physicians' testimony was neatly split...
...story of a child who witnesses a crime and cannot make the adult world understand has been written before, but rarely so well. Devil by the Sea is the season's most chilling tale, and British Novelist Bawden tells it with the devil's own gift of gab and style. She can charm as well as chill. The innocent childhood scenes she sets down, in contrast to the mounting horror in the background, are as engaging as any of the beach idyls sketched by Lewis Carroll...