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Down the river at marbled M.I.T. they follow the Hutchins line on major sports, but minor ones still exist--if in an undernourished condition. Coach James MacDonald's Varsity soccer team meets the fattest of the Engineers' underemphasized athletic squads at M.I.T. this afternoon in the fond hope that the Techmen will provide the same type of fragile opposition as in years past...
...interpretation, Dear Judas is provocative enough. It portrays a Judas who loves Jesus but finds Him grown too fond of power. This Judas betrays Jesus-in the belief that He will only be jailed for a day or two-to avert His later being seized as a revolutionist and killed. This new motive in a Biblical character brings no new drama to the story; indeed, the story has almost no drama, new or old. Read as a poem, Dear Judas has some effective if showy verse; recited as a play, it is almost as hard to follow as to enjoy...
With the economy still unrighted, controls were removed and taxes cased in the fond belief that "the law of supply and demand" would provide incentive and disperse inflation. But platitudes bowed before the perverseness of the economy. Removal of controls, in some cases, failed to increase production, for management or labor sometimes find it profitable not to produce more. Thus shortages have continued in certain lines. For the nation as a whole, however, productive capacity increased, but indefatigably like a shadow, larger incomes and greater demand followed, continuing the overall shortage of goods and the inflationary trend. Finally, a delayed...
...first proposition is that there is an unfortunate inclination in the human heart, which Christians should, but have not, mastered, to be more concerned with the sins of others than with our own sins. ... A good deal of Protestantism is little more than anti-Catholicism; and Catholicism is very fond of historical theories which ascribe all the ills of our generation to the destruction of a Catholic civilization by the force of the Protestant Reformation and modern secularism...
...name, lest he be accosted by some tactless writer or artist in the same car. ... He has relatively few friends and a number of enemies of whom he is, on the whole, rather proud. 'A journalist can't afford to have friends,' he is fond of saying...