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...certain hi-fi records, took to hiding them around the camp (one victim: twangy Ballad Singer-Guitarist Burl Ives). But the men balked only once-when a stateside psychologist sent down a lengthy questionnaire probing each man's attitude toward the others. On unanimous demand, the camp doctor tore up the questions...
...Consent. "After Morocco became independent," said one Western diplomat, "the enthusiasm of the women was almost frightening. They tore off their veils, shouted themselves hoarse, whenever Laila Aisha appeared. Now they seem to be nearing the middle...
Last week Hocking tore himself away from his farm and journeyed to Manhattan to receive a prize that is highly coveted among scholars-the LeComte du Noüy Award, named after the late French biophysicist who tried so eloquently to reconcile the conflicts between science and religion. The award is given alternately in France and the U.S. each year for the book that most successfully points the way to "the greatest development of the spiritual thought of our epoch.'' The book Hocking won it for: The Coming World Civilization (Harper...
Last month a new court with a new judge convened for the 21st session of the case. But the Moslem faithful had waited for justice long enough. They stormed from the court into the mosque grounds, drove out the Reds and tore down most of the Red decorations with their bare hands. Even Allah seemed to be taking a hand in the matter: the Red lawyer was killed by a train when his taxi stalled on a railroad crossing. At long last the Indonesian court ruled hastily that Pak Murah and his Communists must vacate the premises forthwith. The Reds...
...keeping with attitudes of mind learned at Harvard, these essays are not emotion-laden "old alma mater" type plaints. They are some times nostalgic, but not for "the night we tore the Yale goalposts down" or for the good-natured camaraderie of their youth. Most represent a serious attempt to tell what they gained from Harvard, although for some, such as Dos Passos, the gain was not overly great: "It took me twenty years to discover that I did learn something at Harvard after all. Cambridge wasn't such a backwater as I'd thought...