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How good Harvard will be also remains a complete mystery at this point. If the oarsmen acquire that elusive quality which constitutes a coordinated and powerful crew, spectators along the Charles can expect to see one of the best series of races in recent years. If, as unfortunately appears the...

Author: By Michael Churchill, | Title: Inexperienced Heavyweight Crew Plagued With Line-Up 'Problems | 4/21/1961 | See Source »

A good many of the play's individual scenes-some of them flashbacks that put Nerone on the stage-have dramatic color and impact; several performances-Sam Levene's as the doctor, Leo Genn's as the monsignor-are striking. But though its theological concerns often acquire...

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

After decades of diligent work and repeated failure, Novelist Dos Passos has turned back, almost in a gesture of despair, to the exact technique he employed in U.S.A. Slices of fictional personal histories are wedged between slabs of headlines and impressionistic biographic profiles of real-life movers and shapers. Instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Sands of Power | 3/3/1961 | See Source »

There is a place foir Harvard for political clubs, and it seems a pity that so few ever fill that place. Lately, for example, the HYRC has avoided much of the bickering and backbiting which characterized the club in the recent past, and has at least tried to acquire speakers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Royal Art | 2/21/1961 | See Source »

Thus, to the sound of guns, Angola woke from its sleep of centuries. Angola's dream world was founded on the fond Portuguese belief that there was no bitterness between white and black because there was no discrimination. Any black man in the colony who could learn to speak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Angola: Land of Brotherly Love | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

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