Word: affairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have tried to make out what stand the CRIMSON has taken on the Sino-Japanese situation, without, I must confess, any great degree of success. First you pooh-poohed the whole affair as nothing more than a far-Eastern circus and condescendingly advised everybody not to take what the newspapers say too seriously. This attitude I believe to be indefensible; the principles involved in the present situation are of enormous importance to the future of international relations, and no one with any intelligence can afford to sit smugly back and send forth occasional Bronx cheers...
...Note--Mr. Sweezy seems to have missed the point of the first CRIMSON editorial to which he refers. In it the CRIMSON did not "pooh-pooh" the whole affair. Rather, it called attention to the seriousness of the question, saying that, although a war involving the United States was as yet not likely, it was from small, smouldering fires like this that great conflagrations came. It then pointed out the dangers of harkening to a jingoistic and militaristic press and of being influenced by the conversational scarist...
...Chargé d'Affaires William J. McCafferty in San Salvador was genuinely alarmed last week. A Communist army had risen in three Pacific Coast provinces, attacked the towns of La Libertad, Ahuachapan and Sousonate, moved inland and was fighting for Santa Tecla, only eight miles from the capital. Telephone lines had been cut, railroads torn up. San Salvador was threatened next. Chargé d'Affaires McCafferty was familiar with Central American revolutions led by generals or politicians. He had failed to get excited when such a revolt overthrew the Salvador Government two months ago, set up a military...
...Papavert is the name of a mellow old bookbinder who suddenly finds himself in jail. Released by Communists, he becomes for them a symbol of the oppressed workingman. But Mr. Papavert does not like to be a symbol, at one point tries to commit suicide. The whole affair woefully tries for satirical effect, elements of which must have been lost long ago with constant revision. The play was recalled after two performances last month. At that time it was called Papavert. Its present title resulted from a general impression that papaversion was a mental disease...
...Lowell House Dance for this year has been scheduled for Friday, March 11, it was announced following a meeting of the House Committee. Direction of the affair has been left with a committee of three: R. C. Scott '32, chairman, Frederick Ireland '33, and W. L. West, Jr. '32. The dance, as last year, will take place in the House Dining Hall, with the House Library and Common Rooms open for use during the evening. This year an effort is being made to encourage residents to hold dinners in their rooms before the dance. Permission to do this...