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...colored man's misfortunes, the NAACP drives racists and other less enlightened Southerners to intensify repression. He maintains that meanwhile there is no "Negro organization, philanthropic or agitative, dedicated to sanitary and social uplift among the Negroes of the South." Mr. Halberstam, despite his later denial of any partial viewpoint, strongly implies that the NAACP would be well advised to transform itself completely from an effective political pressure group to a neighborhood clean-up, paint-up, fix-up organization...
...experts are also a great source of information about a region. Last year in the Middle East program, for example, a labor delegation from Iran passed through Cambridge, and gave the students the first non-governmental view of the country they had seen. "It was refreshing to get their viewpoint," recalls Richard N. Frye, associate professor of the Middle East Program. "They gave us an impression of the country vastly different from the usual reports...
...Debate Council, the U.N. Council, the Society for Minority Rights, the World Federalists, and the Fellowship of Reconciliation. If the Young Republicans really fear "left-wing" domination--which hardly seems justified--the most effective action open to them would be to join, and put more weight behind the conservative viewpoint...
...they represent decided throwbacks to the turn of the century at a time when the dean of observers of the Harvard scene, John Marquand, was levelling his sights on the Yard. Despite the accuracy and perception of many of Marquand's comments on the nature of Harvard, his viewpoint has certain limitations. Marquand's Harvard is that of the pre-World War II days: Harvard as a veritable breeding ground of class-consciousness, and the very soul of New England social-financial distinctions...
...deference to the professional viewpoint, editor Melvin J. Lasky has given top rating to Malraux. The French historian-philosopher has allowed an advance peek at his The Metamorphosis of the Gods, which will be published next year. Malraux's high scholarship in the selected portion, a preliminary philosophical comparison of the art of several cultures, is fully palatable to the casual reader by virtue of his immensely exciting style. While the editor has made an admirable journalistic coup in obtaining the selection, its brevity perhaps leaves Malraux out of the Review's context. Close perusal of the text and accompanying...