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...Master Elliott Perkins '23 recently said, Lowell attempts to represent the entire College. Yet it does not try to mold its students to any pattern. If the House has any predominant character, it is individualism...
Cyprus is not a U.S. base, but it is of strategic importance to the whole pattern of Western defense in the cold war. It is Britain's command post for the Middle East; it guards vital sources of oil supply; it lies along the best line of communication between Europe and Asia; it is in an area where there is no satellite buffer zone on the Soviet Union's border. For those reasons the U.S. State Department has been watching anxiously the dispute between Britain and Cypriot nationalists who want enosis (union) with Greece. Behind the scenes...
When he first took office, it looked as if Ike might return to the Hoover pattern. As a candidate, he met the press with plain misgivings, and his election sparked widespread speculation that he might go back to written questions and answers. It took him almost a year to overcome his distaste for the sharp questioning at the conference. Since then, his enjoyment of press conferences-like his skill in handling them-has grown steadily...
...that won the world title at Garmisch). She had never done better. But Tenley Albright also was in top form; the ankle she injured before the Olympics was healed. Her spectacular mazurka, witches' jump followed by a drag, and an Axel Paulsen jump, were woven into a pattern of almost unbelievable perfection. The final score was decimal close, but the judges proclaimed Tenley Emma Albright winner and U.S. champion for the fifth straight year. It was the eighth time in nine meetings that she had beaten Carol...
Director Leslie Norman creates tension by drawing out the time required for these events to fall into the preordained pattern. The delayed-action technique works well while the plane is in the air, but much of the excitement is dissipated in long intervals on the ground. The characters then indulge in some vague philosophising, ("Perhaps nothing happens unless somebody dreams it first.") while a phonograph blares out with heavy-handed irony, "Everything in the dream was lovely." A somewhat stiff performance by Michael Redgrave as the officer does not help much either. He is overshadowed by Alexander Knox, who performs...