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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...group, Mrs. Borden and Miss Osterman, are majoring in social relations; Miss Ginsburg and Miss Ogden are English concentrators; Mrs. Kivelson majors in physics and Miss Stolper in history...
...statement, prepared by Union member John O. McCormick, teaching fellow in English, held that "such an oath is obviously out of keeping with the intellectual atmosphere that should prevail at Harvard or any other university...
...highbrow monthly Horizon, Editor Cyril Connolly once wrote: "We English are never so happy as with our backs to the wall, and an understanding Providence has ordained that we need seldom abandon our favorite position." This week, after struggling for ten years to keep Horizon from going to the wall, Connolly abandoned his favorite position...
...Father (by August Strindberg; English version by Robert L. Joseph; produced by Richard W. Krakeur & Mr. Joseph, in association with Harry Brandt) is one of the most vitriolic plays ever written. A man who suffered from, quarreled with and hated women because he loved them, who felt perpetually persecuted and all but went mad, Swedish Playwright Strindberg wrote The Father as a testimonial to his first marriage. Conceived in loathing and dedicated to the proposition that all women are created evil, The Father, first produced in 1887, inspired a new theatrical naturalism...
That essential freshness had been carefully guarded by an American painter named DeWitt Peters, who went to Haiti six years ago to teach English and remained to open the first and only art center in Port-au-Prince. To Peters' surprise, Haitians flocked to the new Centre d'Art with pictures for his approval. Even more surprising was the fact that half the pictures they showed him were interesting. Peters supplied his protégés with painting materials, judiciously refrained from criticizing their work. Eventually he teamed up with American Poet Selden Rodman, whose Renaissance...