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There was a time, barely a year ago, when Mosaic was packed with lame fiction and sickly personal essays that all suffered from the same fault. Very few writers discussed matters relevant to their experience at Harvard; instead they sought "genuine" Jewish material and produced stories about shtetl culture or essays about "chasidism for today's youth." They looked back to the Central European world of their grandparents and proved, by the meager quality of their work, that Kasrilevkeh cannot inspire someone who was never there...
...housing commission probably will issue a special report at the next session of the Legislature, dealing with one of New York's major problems: the racial segregation that is a corollary of income segregation in urban housing guarantees a sharp critique, not a lame survey, of existing programs...
...yesterday to win the 67th Boston A.A. Marathon. Johnny Keyley of Groton, Conn., was second in 2:21:09. Defending champion Eino Oksanen of Finland crossed the line fourth. Erich W. Segal '58, University teaching fellow in General Education, also entered the marathon. He pulled up lame at the 18-mile mark and did not finish...
...Jesse Pearson) rides his motorcycle, rough-tired, right up the steps of the courthouse square, where a welcoming committee of bobby-soxed votaries is waiting to recite its oath: "I pledge allegiance to Conrad Birdie and to the United States of America." Shrieks greet the sight of his gold lame riding habit, and when he begins to sing Honestly Sincere, even the mayor's wife folds into gatelegged collapse. Pearson's 6-ft. 3-in. frame lacks the necessary baby fat for a first-class ribbing of the plot's obvious target, but the sideburns holding...
...Gaulle is the Walter Mitty of Europe, fighting and winning in his dreams of glory the second battle of waterloo... Adenauer, therefore, must choose. He and De Gaulle are the lame ducks but not yet the dead ducks of European politics and they have the power to vote Britain's entrance into Europe..... But If they are asking us to defend a Europe which questions American good faith ... then they are asking and expecting things that have never bean and never will be. For the choice before Adenauer is ... In the end between France...