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...qualify, in fact, as the flattest-voiced play of the season. This is part of its meaning: it concerns the return of a young girl living in London to her farm-worker family -set, ignorant, mean-souled people given to drab gossip and barnyard jokes. The girl, having gained wider horizons through a self-educated Socialist boy friend, vainly hymns culture and social awareness to her family. Then, just when her lover is to arrive for a visit, a letter from him arrives instead, chucking her as not up to his world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays off-Broadway | 3/17/1961 | See Source »

...freshman year they should be initiated as soon as possible. It is not true that the introduction of GSAS section men and tutors would make little difference to the freshmen. The issues here are more complicated than the CRIMSON seems award: do freshmen need more time, a wider concern, and more Tender Loving Care than section men or tutors can ordinarily offer? can the "intellectual level" of the Yard be raised by an administrative change, without building separate dining facilities for each unit, without differentiating the units architecturally...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRONTO | 3/14/1961 | See Source »

...school graduate. In a state where the university is mushrooming chiefly because it has no competitors, and 93% of undergraduates are Minnesotans, this policy is likely to stay. Wilson aims to solve his problem by revamping the university. "What begins as a burden," says he, "may prove a blessing." Wider Sidewalks. Minnesota combines all the glories and weaknesses of U.S. state universities on a 966-acre main campus beside the Mississippi River between Minneapolis and St. Paul. The campus is an architectural hodgepodge dominated by a football arena seating 65,000. Drawing heavily on the state's population...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mass & Class at Minnesota | 3/10/1961 | See Source »

...strengthen, not weaken, the U.N. Since he took over the U.S. delegation three weeks ago, Stevenson has been energetically conferring with Hammarskjold, as well as with the Africans and Asians, in search of a "consensus" for a new formula that could break the long Congo stalemate. Hammarskjold wanted wider powers, enabling him to block money transfers from abroad to Congo banks and to search all incoming planes for arms.. But many sensitive African nations were wary of too much power for the U.N. For its part, the U.S. was urging Belgium to cease its arms buildup in Katanga...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The United Nations: The Bear's Teeth | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

...Crimson coach Bill Brooks were to unleash all the chaos that he holds in check, the gap might even be wider. But he probably...

Author: By Peter S. Britell, | Title: Hockey, Swimming Teams Face Tigers | 2/18/1961 | See Source »

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