Writer

John E. Mcnees

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MacLeish's 'J. B.': A Review of Reviews

There is probably no way to prove that the people who like J.B. are the same ones who read Time


The Burnt Flower-Bed

L'Aiuola Bruciata, the work receiving its first American performance this week at the Tufts Arena Theater as The Burnt Flower-Bed,


The Religion of Unbelief: Ethics Without God

Once a week or so, an elderly Negro woman stalks down the crowded sidewalks of Harvard Square and Massachusetts Avenue,


The Seventh Seal

In the midst of the apocalyptic vision vouchsafed the apostle John on the island of Patmos, there occurs a moment


Oedipus Rex

Aristotle wrote in his Poetics that the ideal drama should be grounded on a plot so firm that, "even without


The Life of Bertrand Russell: Apologia for Modern Paganism

Bertrand Russell stands at the end of a philosophic line of succession extending from John Locke through David Hume and


The Quest at Princeton For the Cocktail Soul

"My own ideals for the University are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. The two, indeed, seem to


Father Feeney Quits Cambridge; St. Benedict's Center Up for Sale

Father Leonard J. Feeney, excommunicated Roman Catholic priest, is moving away from Cambridge. The 60-year-old former Jesuit and his band