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… over-the-top rowdiness as long as I could: Gargantua combing the cannonballs out of his hair after a battle, the … avocat, the equivalent of a solicitor in England, but he is also a stage actor of considerable experience, a folklorist … narrative, “for François Rabelais,” writes Cohen, “the headiest liquor of all was the liquor of learning.” Indeed, the …

… By Oliver Perry Chitwood. New York: D. Appleton-Century Company. $4.00. Thoreau. By Henry Seidel Canby. Boston: … inevitably follow.” Henry Thoreau was born in 1817 and died in 1862. Mr. Gerald W. Johnson dates the beginning of … who seems most like our contemporary. As Mr. Johnson points out, he was the first representative of “big …

… but indifference. They do not realize how quickly our bodies grow callous to even the keenest sensations, and how … our permanent interest to appeal not only to our senses but also to our hearts and minds. A wider realization of this … that it would transform many of the activities of both our composers and our performers. For over a generation now …

… Mexico. By Henry Bramford Parkes. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. $3.75. The Coming Struggle for Latin America. By Carleton Beals. Philadelphia: J. B. Uppincott Company. $2.50. Since the …

… the resulting famine, in which one out of ten Somalis may die, the number of displaced persons has swollen to almost a … a clinic in Mogadishu holds the paperwork she will need to complete to receive care for her infant.  The heartland of … Dadaab—over the past two years, they’ve been cardinal points on the compass of what K’naan, a Somali rapper, calls …