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...last person we expected to find among the dissentious Young Democrats was the Associate Dean of Harvard College. Yet, barely twenty-four hours after the HYDC split in two, Dean Watson stepped in and, reminiscent of a Wild West story, announced that the College was not big enough for both of them. Apparently the Currey faction has no right to official status if it parallels its parent group on policy or candidates...
...Peace Council was founded last February with the help of Henry J. Cadbury, Hollis Professor of Divinity and head of the American Friends Service Committee. The new group split shortly afterwards into the original Peace Council and the Students For Non-Violent Action, who are solely pacifists and stress an individual approach towards peace...
...personnel, and especially in the question periods which followed, Scott found widespread and intelligent interest in international problems. Some of their questions : What is the significance of the troubles of Madame Ana Pauker? How do you evaluate the work of the Voice of America? Can we hope for a split in Russia between the military and political leaders? Why does the U.S. continue to spend money abroad? Are people behind the Iron Curtain mature enough to select their own governments if liberated? Is the Schuman Plan an effective means to counteract Soviet aggression in Europe...
...novelist, Santayana did not succeed. The Last Puritan was a very starchy, sententious book. He was unable to see people except in relation to himself or his ideas. In his volumes of autobiography, Persons and Places, on the other hand, which describe the spiritual history of his wandering, split-up family, the life in Avila at the turn of the century where sorrow, rigid custom and a melancholy religion absolutely ruled the population, and the strange contrasts offered by the earnest Boston of William James and the raffish England of Lord John Russell-in things like these Santayana...
Author Halsey's arguments are often narrow and sometimes absurd. She writes, in fact, as if the split between God and Mammon had not plagued man from the beginning. Nonetheless, her book is the work of an earnest armchair moralist with an honored American tradition behind her. If, as is very likely, The Folks at Home puts Author Halsey back into the moneymaking nightmare, it will be because she has laid a tremulous but honest finger on a national nerve...