FOUR YEARS LATER
POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS should, we suppose, make people acquire a new interest in politics. But the only person we know of to whom this has happened during this campaign is Dwight D....
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Beckett's Dying Gladiators
"HIS HEROES ARE MOCK-TRAGIC HEROES, 'DYING GLADIATORS/ YET NEVER ATTAINING RESPECT AMONG LIVING CREATURES AROUND THEM, OR A DESIRED FUNEREAL DIGNITY"
HORACE GREGORY
THE...
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U.S. BOOKS ABROAD
Exporting America's Image
SAM HYNES
HENRY JAMES once wrote: "It is a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious...
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THREE REFLECTIONS OH ROMEO AND JULIET
An honest grief bring
Romeo where Juliet lies
in her tomb
Thy leaden life let ring
let echo round round
the stone room.
II
She gave
life to love once
to wait...
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HERE AND THERE
WHO'S LISTENING?
JAMES RESTON, the Times' cold-eyed columnist, says that American voters are a funny people: they don't listen. "Once every four years they are courted and coaxed by...
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D. H. LAWRENCE
A Failure of Understanding
ANTHONY BAILEY
DH. LAWRENCE has been dead twenty-six years now and we seem to be no closer to taking him in-which is partly our fault, and partly his....
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THE STAGE
A PLAY FOR ACTORS
IN "The Loud Red Patrick," a fervent, mechanized comedy drawn from Miss Ruth McKenney's domestic remembrance of things past, the talents of Mr. Arthur Kennedy and Mr....
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THE SCREEN
LONE STAR STATE OF MIND
AS SPRAWLING as Texas itself is "Giant," George Stevens' movie based on Edna Ferber's novel about the Lone Star State. But in spite
of its bigness and too lengthy...
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