... right, Billy Budd is con demned to death but as he is standing on the deck with the noose around his neck an ancient mariner speaks up to reveal that the boy is too important a guy to swing. He is not, as everybody thinks, a bastard from Bristol he is the ...

... It is, rather, a plea for the painting to be allowed first to speak for itself in somewhat the same way as (if I have understood him correctly) Bertolt Brecht always hoped that he might speak through his actors to his audience, an ideal audience with hearts ...

... put into book form a series of addresses made while he was Indian Ambassador in Washington. Under the title AN AMBASSADOR SPEAKS (Asia Publishing House. 25s.), these speeches are mainly informed explanations of India's structure and policies for American ...

... (Oxford University Press. 10s.), by Charles Singer; and Volumes 3 and 4 of Sir Winston Churchill's A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES (Cassell. 10s. 6d. each). Richard Edmonds ...

... Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He became New York's favourite figure abused, caricatured, burlesqued and loved. This, roughly speaking, is his career story set to music and enthusiastically if inappropriately played and sung by actors who, in the many moments ...