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Starting off his political activity with the United States Student Assembly, now the Students for Democratic Action, he worked for the New York Liberal Party and then, became Executive Secretary of the SDA. In 1948 he came to Massachusetts as Executive Director of the Massachusetts ADA. From there he went to Smith...
...they'll get a worse bill. They attack these bills for the wrong reason. They say that it's all right to stop the Communists from talking, when in reality no one should be denied the right of free speech." Leuchtenberg himself was attacked as a Communist for his ADA connections while at Smith...
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '28, associate professor of History, will be one of the main speakers at the fifth convention of the Massachusetts ADA today...
...wittiest woman in the world," said Oscar Wilde of Ada Leverson. Others who admired Ada's sparkle were Max Beerbohm, Aubrey Beardsley, Henry James and George Bernard Shaw (whom she succeeded as drama critic of the Saturday Review). Venomous with bores, she flattened them joyfully. When a vacation acquaintance buttonholed her with "I don't know whether you realize it ... but my aunt was a Thunderby," Ada cried, "Oh, how terrible! Oughtn't we to inform the management?" Accused of using peroxide on her hair, she flashed that she "only darkened it a little at the roots...
...Ada Leverson died in 1936, deaf, but witty to the last. In addition to her dramatic criticism, she left six novels and at least one unfinished work-to be entitled (she said) The Collected Telegrams of Oscar Wilde. Her third novel, The Limit (1911), now appears in the U.S. for the first time. It is a fine example of the Leverson specialty: Edwardian laughter with an edge...