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...think that the $275 million which Congress had appropriated for the purpose, to last until April 2, was going to be enough. Lapham thought it was unrealistic to suppose that the U.S. could pull China out of her economic hole with a one-year program. Unless Congress was prepared to hand out many more millions, under firm U.S. controls, China's economic future...
...Pull Down Thy Vanity." The "Pisan Cantos" continue in much the same vein as their predecessors; it's still the same old Ez. He still rants against the capitalists and remembers old friends-T. S. Eliot with acerbity, William Butler Yeats with fondness. At times, he is his old brash and raucous self, praising Benito and gleefully shouting...
...Freshman year, a student must be able to write . . . clear and concise . . . English." The Anticipatory is the hardest exam the College offers. This year more than 950 students were eligible for the exam. Thirty passed; they were inordinately lucky or exceptionably skillful. The rest, except for those who pull down an A after the first term, will have to sweat out polyglot sections until June...
...constituted authority, all you have left is anarchy. Student expression has been allowed to run wild here over a period of years. We're not against student expression, but it must run through channels." And faculty critics were worse: "You can't feed at the trough and pull the bung out at the same time . . ." In his convocation address, Ashby promised to use DDT on erring faculty and students...
...reason is partly structural. In none of his plays has Tennessee Williams made a classic frontal assault on drama. Writing episodically, with tricks of stagecraft and a crutchlike use of offstage music, he has always trusted to a vague sense of poetry and a vivid sense of theater to pull him through. Here the sense of theater is weakened by wordiness and the episodic method is inadequate. The episodes themselves are often skimpy and short-breathed; the minor characters are mostly not even wooden-just beaverboard. The many scenes, instead of serving as a flight of stairs to the great...