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...sponsorship of the Students Council, they rented an eighteenth century castle, Leopoldskron, outside the Austrian city of Salzburg from the widow of producer Max Rinehardt. They convinced several well-known American teachers of the soundness of their idea, among whom were Professors Wassily Leontief, F. O. Matthiesen, and Benjamin F. Wright of Harvard and Margaret Mead of the American Museum of Natural History...
...program for this year looks promising. Another group of capable professors have consented to serve without pay, and the curriculum ranges from diplomatic history in the twentieth century to American music. Harvard will be represented by professors Benjamin F. Wright and Clyde K. M. Kluckhohn, and Florence Kluckhohn. The administrative stuff is busy now raising the $60,000 budget. A grant of $15,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation helped the drive considerably, but about half of the total is still to be collected...
Majority Leader Benjamin F. Feinberg of New York's Republican state senate regarded it as "the finest bill I have ever sponsored during a long career [16 years] in the legislature." The bill: an act to purge fellow traveler and Communist teachers from the state public-school system. Other states, such as Illinois and Texas, have ordered investigations of Communist activities in education (TIME, April 4). But last week, with Governor Dewey's signature on Ben Feinberg's bill, New York went even further...
Lawyer Goldstein said that "at least a dozen organizations" were backing him, but he was not ready to name them last week. Apparently he did not speak for B'nai B'rith's Anti-Defamation League, whose national director, Benjamin R. Epstein, declared: "We believe Mr. Goldstein's threatened resort to litigation . . . is unwise. A decent respect for academic freedom means that the police power of the state is resorted to only in those cases where the material is intended to undermine the democratic fabric and even then, only in extreme cases...
...Metropolitan has been trumpeting a good deal about its new opera, Benjamin Britten's "Peter Grimes." I suspect that the fanfare has been, at least in part, an attempt to cover its neglect of modern opera, for "Grimes" seems to be the only work in the current repertoire that is less than 30 years old. This is not wholly the fault of the Met, since it has staged several unsuccessful premieres in recent decades; the empty seats in the Opera House Thursday night showed that the responsibility also lies with the public. But the Met has not gone...