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When the Cheever report is completed this summer, the University will have a better idea what the impact of Federal money has been on it. Presumably the report will clarify the distinction between "enough" and "too much" Federal aid. It should not be forgotten, though, that Harvard's solutions to the questions Federal money raises are unique and even idiosyncratic. Few other universities can duplicate the Program for Harvard Medicine. For many schools, the need for Federal money extends to teachers' salaries, too. Thus, while Harvard is rightly using its name and prestige to free itself as much as possible...
Cheever expects to complete the study he is now making of the impact of Federal funds on the University by early summer...
...great obscenity of politics decelerated Brecht's impact upmodern theater, and yet few seri critics, East or West, deplore fact that the playwright stooped elf in Marxist philosophy. For, ily, Answers in Brecht's plays second place to Questions, and ctical training provided him with a needed technique for ironically confronting reality. The intense study of Marxism which he undertook in the late 20's, imparted an intellectual discipline to his outlook and to his style...
Heller argues that high interest rates and budget surpluses are incompatible; an Administration has to choose one or the other. Since both tend to hold down demand, tight money and budget surpluses acting together have a gravely depressing impact on the economy. Some economists believe that the U.S. moved so swiftly from the 1958 recession into the 1960 recession because the Eisenhower Administration combined high interest rates with a mighty drive for a balanced budget in fiscal 1960 (a considerable shock to the economy after the $12 billion deficit the previous year...
...indeed, in a smaller way has Rothko, and this automatically places a limit on his striving toward the limitless. To Rothko, almost everything depends on the viewer's being able to approach a painting as a pure and unique experience, for which he should not be prepared. The impact of color, the electric shimmer of an edge, the intensity of a shape must alone bear the message. There should be no associations, only sensation: since the viewer should recognize nothing, there should be no barriers to his flight...