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...HOUGHTON Library is the ugly building in Harvard Yard between Widener and Lamont. Its brick walls are drab and square, the stone steps leading to its entrance are ponderous, and its doors are always closed...
...even in its temporary location--a drab, block-long building that formerly housed the Securities and Exchange Commission--and with just a fraction of the students that it hopes to eventually have, Federal City College is trying to do some innovative things in education. It is trying to make education relevant to poor blacks who have grown up in a city, to help them use what they have learned, and to learn from their experience...
...While Longer. Meanwhile, the drab sameness of Communist conformity once more settled over the country and stifled its spirit. Ordinary Czechoslovaks seemed cowed and de pressed. Press, newspaper, radio and television spewed forth daily drivel about happy factory workers, joyous farmers and the blessings of Marxism. They could do little else. Under the censorship rules, the press is forbidden to mention that Czechoslovaks were killed and wounded by the invading armies. It is also forbidden to talk about the damage that trigger-happy Soviet soldiers and their tanks inflicted on Czechoslovak buildings and autos. Above all, there must...
...cops' tough tactics, reacted as if they had been under personal attack. When Daley returned to his modest brick bungalow in the Bridgeport section of the South Side, 800 admirers greeted him with cheers and signs: HOORAY FOR DALEY and PRIDE OF THE U.S.-CHICAGO POLICE. In the drab Six Corners neighborhood on the Northwest Side, Construction Worker Arthur Faber, 45, expressed the sentiments of perhaps a majority of Chicagoans and millions of other Americans: "I say he did all right. How else is he going to stop all this stuff...
...film achieves a classic stature. There is no gesture too minor for her to master. She peers out at the world with the washed-out eyes of a hunted animal. Her walk is a ladylike retreat, a sign of a losing battle with time and diets and fashion. Her drab voice quavers with a brittle strength that can command a student but break before a parent's will. By any reckoning, it is Actress Woodward's best performance...