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Died. Clive Staples Lewis, 64, Oxbridge don, scholar of the Renaissance, present-day Christian epistler second to none; of a heart attack; in Oxford (see RELIGION...
...made quite clear. The stated purpose is to have a student organization which will be exclusively African and American Negro. Your letter calls the policy by the name, "anti-racist racism." It goes on to justify the purpose at length in terms of acute present-day social needs. And you call upon Harvard to recognize that the special needs of the time require the College to abandon, for your special case, our long-standing rule that membership in student organizations, as in the College itself, should not be governed in principle by stipulations of race, religion, or national origin...
Costume exhibits are rare (the last here was in 1952), and this one was three years in the making; it's worth going to see. Unfortunately, present-day items are not included. A floor-length, beaded evening dress by Dior (or an American designer like Norman Norell) would have provided an interesting contrast to the older costumes on display...
...year income he inherited during World War II, no longer goes as far as it once did. "At some point, now impossible to define," he reflects, "his face had ceased to inspire confidence of the right sort, even in bars." With no prospects George hangs on, in present-day London, a kind of frayed cuff whose very existence is a reproach to the bustling stuffed-shirt society he inhabits...
...would be one of the key areas of postwar social reform. When he thanked Churchill for the job, legend has it that the Prime Minister retorted: "I meant it as an in sult." Nonetheless, the highly acclaimed Butler Act in 1944 became the master plan for Britain's present-day educational system, and its author joined the Cabinet as the nation's first Minister of Education...