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Personal Tendency. By the nature of its mission, the fund was bound to be attacked, and its success or failure was bound to depend on the ability of its spokesmen to meet the attacks. Hutchins has absorbed nearly all of the public-relations function, and Hutchins is so brilliant a controversialist that he sometimes seems to be looking for fights in which to display his debater's skill...
...into exile or to prison are called éloignés (distant ones). Last week in French Morocco and Tunisia two such distant ones were close at hand. Both were nationalists whom the French had once deported; both were also moderates on whom both Frenchman and Arab must now depend if calm is to be restored in North Africa...
...slapstick is a theatrical narcotic, and both Wilder and director Tyrone Guthric almost inhale too much of the stuff. Having written the play expressly for Ruth Gordon in the role of Mrs. Levi, the author has given her too many lines that depend on dialect alone. Guthrie has compounded the peccadillo by letting Miss Gordon maintain her rasping voice too loud for too much of the time. The result, especially when Loring Smith is sharing the scene as the booming and gesticulating Vandergelder, is a shouting match that numbs the audience and detracts from those scenes wherein pandemonium reigns legitimately...
...arms shipment brought the Russians past Western defenses and lodged them inside Egypt's gates? "No, I think not," said Nasser. "I have always said that the defense of the Middle East must depend primarily upon the people of the Middle East. It must be inspired from within. But if there were a major war, we would still cooperate with those whose interests were like our interests. I can only answer your question with a question. Do you believe that it would be the West that would invade the Middle East, or the West that would make aggression against...
...used in the library, there-by rejecting a Union Committee offer of free help. The Class of '59 had said it would man the desks if Buck would open Lamont until midnight. He said he respected the generosity of the student body, "but it isn't fair to depend on anyone whom you don't compensate...