Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...easy to find someone to tag Harvard education as "over-specialized," as it is to get Martin Dies to say "un-American." But the criticism is undoubtedly justified. The Student Council in a recent report sought to correct excessive concentration by backing the "area" proposal, which would involve distribution of courses among three divisions--natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Perhaps an institutional reform along these lines will take place some day soon; meanwhile the Class of 1943 must do its own reforming. Its members should select their distribution courses with an eye to sampling each of the three areas...
...Hamlet's story which is most familiar to us to whom Mr. Cabell refers. It is a certain Wiglerus who, in spite of his strange and somewhat comic name, turns out to be none other than the stock Cabell hero, although figuring in a highly exotic environment. One would say, offhand, that the world of the Norse sagas is the last place to look for one of Mr. Cabell's latter-day Jurgens: middle-aged, disillusioned-but-invincibly-romantic, garrulous, priapic...
Professor Sorokin's solution is incomplete; he admits this at the outset. He does not say such-and-such is the design for happiness. But, he does say that in seeking for the road to happiness, we must adopt a new attitude. First of all, we must accept the reality of absolute values, as exemplified in art, ethics, and religion; we must accept the reality of man and society, the reality of empirical data, and finally the infinite possibility of interpreting anything, within its own context, as real. He has certainly provided a means of relationship between narrow, closed orbits...
...Remember the Night," a local boy from the Wabash country of Indiana who has made good in the big city as an assistant district attorney. The two of them together have been able to do a lot for this over-sweet litle romance; some who have seen it say it made them remember all the girls they had ever been in love with. It is pure sentiment, the triumph of unsophisticated country hospitality over city-bred cynicism. Barbara Stanwyck manages to make the seamy side of life look alluring, but Boy Scout MacMurray saves the show for the Sunday School...
...carefully ignores the Finnish question, except to say that America should avoid it. There is no support of Russia's invasion, no condemnation of Finnish "attacks." All the emphasis in this manifesto is upon the dangers of American involvement, the very real imminence of an anti-Soviet crusade. Even though this emphasis may in this case spring from a blind attachment to the Kremlin, the facts assembled are impressive, and serve to show that American idealism, and American big business are following conflicting paths. If the YCL can soft-pedal Finnish "aggression," there may be some hope left for unity...