week by week POWER AND INFLUENCE THE DECISION which Congress takes regarding funds for the United States Information Agency will have a significance beyond the Agency itself. Buried under...
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The Literature of Guilt "RARELY HAS THE FIELD OF LETTERS BEEN MORE PREOCCUPIED BY THE PROBLEMS OF THE HUMAN CONSCIENCE THAN IT IS TODAY" PIERRE-HENRI SIMON DURING PERIODS of...
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EVOLUTION OF A POET Laforgue's Despairing Humor VIVIAN MERCIER IN A LETTER of December 6, 1881, to Charles Ephrussi, Jules Laforgue yearned from Berlin for his benefactor's art collection in...
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A MATTER OF RITUAL D ALTON TRUMBO, a successful screenwriter, began his career in 1936 with a flimsy little movie called "Life Begins at Twenty." During the next nine years he rose to the top...
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EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poet of Our Youth BETTE RICHART D YLAN THOMAS said that "Out of an inevitable conflict of images . . . I try to make that momentary peace which is a poem."...
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THE STAGE THE MATHEMATICS OF FARCE IN ONE OF those ferocious exaltations which attended the ordeal of Madame Bovary, Flaubert was seized with the vision of "a book about nothing at all, a...
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caught in a rhythm of perpetual motion. We are again in Mr. Walter Kerr's debt for the single, infallible image he has given us of Mr. Bert Lahr as a bird dog: feet flat, eyes alert, nose poised,...
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as an opportunity for him to prove his prowess; and it is unfortunate that so much of the last part of the film is taken up with undistinguished scenes of war and flying. Perhaps "Reach for the...
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administered by a great many conscience-less characters who fattened their purses at public expense. But I can't agree with Jaime Potenze when he says that South Americans know little of North...
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