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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Party Ba Gu is Party jargon. It combines hackneyed language with unfamiliar terminology. ... In our drive to build the Party to 100,000 let's be on guard against Ba Gu. . . . When Communists are accused of being dogmatic by sincere persons what is often meant is that our correct thought is so wrapped up in the language of Ba Gu that we are simply not understood. Ba Gu is harmful to the individual, harmful to our cause and must therefore be exterminated...
With the exception of a slight fracas in 1926, the Station's relations with Harvard students have been calm enough to make the "rowdy undergraduate" stereotype seem fictitious. The one irregular episode occurred when the U.T. was first opened and students, perhaps to intimidate the unfamiliar apparitions, heaved over-ripe vegetables at the screen. Police were quickly summoned and a few heads were dented. But since that time, all patrolmen assigned to the College have been carefully chosen and no major incidents have developed. Furthermore, by keeping in close touch with University officials, the police have managed to apprehend...
Reader's Digest was the first U.S. magazine to be printed in Britain after the wartime blackout. Last week the second one popped up in London bookstores. Unlike the Digest (circ. 11 million), the second U.S. entry-Partisan Review-is a highbrow magazine almost as unfamiliar to most Americans as it is to Britons. But it quickly sold...
These descriptive passages succeed brilliantly. Author Lowry presents the Mexican scene with such vivid lavishness that by the time the reader has reached the end of Under the Volcano there is not an unfamiliar bird, beast or grain of dust. But the method which succeeds so well in regard to landscape is unendurable in regard to the human mind and soul. Author Lowry's psychoanalysis-with its interminable interior monologues and devotion to the tiniest turns of thought-results in a prose so coagulated by indiscriminate introspection that it bogs down like the characters it describes...
Taking to the court in quest of their seventh hoop win. Coach Hal Kopp's Jayvees will meet an unfamiliar junior squad from Tufts at the Indoor Athletic Building at 4 o'clock this afternoon. Miqua the services of captain Gunther Resinus, who suffered a sprained ankle in Saturday's game against the Cambridge "V", the Jayvees will rely on the scoring talents of forwards Frank Bixler and Steva Brademas...