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...addition, Bunting's decision to let the Houses evolve separately with the advice and consent of the Hall Presidents has introduced a coercion of the disaffected by the energetic. It is harder for girls to ignore activities arranged or promoted by their confederates in the relatively close confines of the Halls than for Harvard students to remain inactive in the anonymity of the Houses. This will be less serious, of course, when activity centers in the larger House units instead of the relatively small dorms...
...student newspaper's dissatisfaction with the controls goes back more than a year to the expulsion of an editor for what the Faculty described as an "obscene" issue. Later, a commencement issue publicizing the discover of a dead baby on the campus was confiscated, though not with the consent of high ranking members of the administration...
...Constitution specifies that "neither House, during the Session of Congress, shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days...
High Places. Obviously, Washington is the place to shoot Advise and Consent, which deals with the passions and principles set in motion when the President nominates a new Secretary of State. Washington, for all its worldliness, was entranced with the junta that Preminger brought in from Hollywood: President Franchot Tone, Vice President Lew Ayres, Majority Leader Walter Pidgeon, Powerful Southern Senator Charles Laughton, Secretary of State-designate Henry Fonda...
...Southern drawl, newly acquired after a careful study of the delivery of Mississippi's real-life Senator John Stennis. Preminger vetoed it. "Meester Laughton," said he, "vill not do it because I vill not allow it." He also ignored the suggestion that the theme of Advise and Consent might evoke a questionable image of the U.S. abroad. He has prudently eliminated most of the book's high-level chicanery...