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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...better than such authentic calypso singers as the Duke of Iron, or Lord Flea and His Calypsonians (Lord Fish Ray, Count Spoon, et a/.), whose cleaned-up version of the nocturnal wanderings of a flea (The Naughty Little Flea; Capitol) is also a nightclub favorite. All told, calypso records account for roughly a quarter of current pop sales...
...periods to gather up the odds and ends, or the dregs, of their courses, enabling them to stuff their students a little fuller and to cross off the remaining titles on their syllabi. Taking notice of the remarkable number of extracurricular activities at Harvard, and taking human nature into account, he probably would doubt that periods placed at such propitious times were ever used for advanced study in the course, that Fall and Spring term Reading Periods were intended to be capstones, not cramming orgies or catch-alls. Such doubts and suspicions would be extremly well founded...
Final Aphorism. Fraina's career sums up the failure of early U.S. Communism and its theorizers to win the practical-minded American worker. Draper's account ends in 1923, on the eve of an era when new theorizers carried U.S. Communism almost as high as the old Smolny gang had dreamed. That was the time (subject of later volumes) when U.S. intellectuals lovingly tended the shoots that had grown from the Communist roots, ready for the fatuous aphorism of Earl Browder that "Communism is the Americanism of the twentieth century...
...cent of those in Economics 1 are going to be economists and only about 2-3 per cent of our concentrators. Many of our graduates go into business or accept business posts. But our major contribution is to liberal education. Our curriculum takes these facts into account. Seymour E. Harris, Chairman Department of Economics...
...that they do not measure the most important parts of a course. This student frankly does not care to read everything on a reading list with the same degree of attention, and he resents the College's willingness to single him out as less educated than others on this account...