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...Social Scientist David Riesman of the University of Chicago is no man to deny that there are enough irresponsible attacks upon U.S. colleges and universities to raise the hackles on any intellectual's neck. But in their loud protests, do the intellectuals always help their own cause? In a lecture at Mills College, Riesman answered no. In Riesman's opinion, intellectuals "tend to overestimate the monolithic power of reaction...
Twelve groups were originally invited to attend the meeting by Chairman Anthony C. Beilenson '54, who represents the Council. Six either failed to appear or decided not to take part. Of these, four were religious groups: Hillel, the Episcopal Society, the Catholic Club, and the Christian Scientist Society, which decided that they did not wish to take political stands. The other two were Students for Non-Violent Action and the World Federalists...
Members of the committee are as fol lows; the Liberal Union, the Young Republican Club, the Young Democrats, the Society for Minority Rights the World Federalists, the CRIMSON, Students for Non-Violent Action, the United Nations Council, the Catholic Club the Episcopal Society, and the Christian Scientist Society...
Battles are often lost because divisions lose contact with each other in the smoke of combat. Though less publicized, a lack of communication at home is often as disastrous as any on the battlefield. In the cold war of world armaments, a leading scientist made a statement a few weeks ago that went almost unnoticed by the press, but is fully as disquieting as the announcement of the Russian hydrogen bomb. Said the director of the Brookhaven National Laboratory: "there exists a complete lack of communication between the scientific community and out top military and political leaders...
This search for understanding, poignant in conception, is, however, less moving than it should be. Partially, the fault lies in the characters. Introduced as "that potentially most volatile of all beings, a romantic scientist," Henry shows little of the imagination which Mr. Flood attributes to him. After the brief enthusiasms of his trips to Europe and his love for Susan, he retreats into a quiet resignation, plodding in its dullness. Similarly drab, Susan is treated so much as a symbol of Boston propriety that she seems brittle and unappealing, while the contradictions of character which make Alice more interesting...