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Overall grade point averages have been rising over the past 50 years. Reports for Harvard College show that in the '20s, about 20 per cent of the student body was on the Dean's List while the average for the '30s was 26 per cent. Thirty-seven percent made the list for the academic year 1949-50 and 65 per cent...
...RATHER SKIMPY BOOK by George Furth focuses on the travails of Bobby, a single man in his mid-30s surrounded by "those good, crazy people, my married friends." He drifts from one of the five supporting couples to another, watching them bicker and age together, wondering when and if he, too, will succumb to the marital trap...
...other respects, Pasternak acted with exemplary, even foolhardy courage, as Ivinskaya makes plain. During the Great Terror of the '30s, he had refused to sign an endorsement of the death sentence meted out to Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky and other officers. In her memoirs Nadezhda Mandelstam recalled that Pasternak was the only person who dared visit her when her husband, the poet Osip Mandelstam, died in a concentration camp. Pasternak bravely directed that the royalties for his translations of Shakespeare's tragedies be spent to help prisoners in the Gulag. When prison regulations eased after Stalin's death...
...takes a great deal of cynicism to write, as does Professor Said, that "after 60 years of immigration from Europe to Palestine the total Jewish population in 1947 was less than 600,000." Why cynicism? Because Professor Said knows very well that from the early '30s on millions of Jews in Europe were pounding desperately on the gates, and if not for the British imperialists, who kept those gates barred, their lives would have been saved from the Nazi gas chambers...
Many of the refugees had come to Palestine only ten or 20 years before, in the '30s and '40s. Wrote an observer in 1937, "One always finds in Palestine Arabs who have been in the country only a few weeks or a few months...Since they are themselves strangers in a strange land, they are loudest to cry 'Out with the Jews!' Among them are to be found representatives of every Arab country: Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Egypt, the Sudan and Iraq...