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...themes have a common source. Its anguish is the pessimism of a 71-year-old dramatist who would never compose another Master-Builder or Hedda Gabler. When We Dead Awaken is not a fitting conclusion to Ibsen's career. Especially in the third act, set on a mountain peak, Ibsen resorts to artificial contrivances that are not characteristic...

Author: By Eugene E. Leach, | Title: When We Dead Awaken | 3/2/1965 | See Source »

Stephen A. Sohn '66 claimed last night that an agreement he reached with a British airline would allow the HSA to fly one plane-load of students to Europe for $29 less than its current minimum rate during the peak season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HSA Refuses Offer of Another Plane | 2/27/1965 | See Source »

Under his agreement with Garber's Travel Agency, Sohn had been prepared to charter a prop-jet plane from Boston to London, leaving after commencement and returning during the first week of September. He would have charged $240, compared to the HSA's current peak-season minimum of $269 for a flight to Brussels...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HSA Refuses Offer of Another Plane | 2/27/1965 | See Source »

Sheppard, the opening speaker, said that the war is illegal, since it has never been declared by Congress nor discussed by the American people. "The war was started by Eisenhower, escalated by Kennedy, and brought to a peak by Johnson," he continued...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vietnam Protest Rally Draws 250 | 2/27/1965 | See Source »

...Britain's cruelest winters, the Board of Trade last week issued some sorry news: the foreign trade gap worsened in January. The report was doubly disappointing because Britain had expected to improve upon the strong performance that it recorded in December, when exports hit an all-time monthly peak and the trade gap narrowed to $224 million. But January's exports plunged and imports were scarcely reduced by the Labor government's 15% surcharge on most foreign purchases. The gap grew to $272 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: More Pressure on the Pound | 2/19/1965 | See Source »

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