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President Pusey will be absent during Castro's visit, according to J. Hampden Robb '21, University Marshal. Castro will be introduced by Dean Bundy...
...their statements. The loss to Bloom in this exhibition is precisely that his mature expression, of which color is a strong positive factor, is largely missing. The chandelier series, the amputated limb series--harder to take than Soutine's carcasses but fine painting all the same--are unfortunately absent...
Entitled The Bigamist, this Italian film might be called No Noise is Good Noise. It features Vittorio de Sica as "an eloquent but absent-minded wind-bag lawyer who can't tell a tort from a tortoni." Though Mr. de Sica takes his limited role firmly by the tail, he overshakes it until it becomes disappointing...
...Dogma is injected into almost all subjects. Teachers may be scholars, but they are expected to follow rigid syllabuses, have far less freedom to interpret their subjects than U.S. instructors. Rote learning, abhorred by some U.S. educators, is carried to extremes. Class discussion, perhaps overemphasized in the U.S., is absent in Russia, and students are not encouraged to think beyond lines laid down by teachers. Cramming for exams swallows a large proportion of the students' time, and since questions are drawn by lot from lists circulated weeks beforehand, it is possible for a hard-working parrot to have huge...
...Tribute. Addressing the congress next day in place of the absent Mao, China's Premier Chou En-lai attacked Yugoslavia and the U.S. in terms far more bitter than Khrushchev's, and defended China's people's communes as "the best form for developing socialism under Chinese conditions." At the close, Khrushchev threw his arms round the speaker and, according to an old Russian custom, kissed him three times. It was, said a Soviet reporter, "as if not just two men but two great brotherly people had embraced." But Chou himself was forced to render tribute...