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From sailboats the Advocate shifts to speedways with Erik Amfitheatrof's "The Day of Giants." Expect for a few reflective paragraphs which seem superfluous and some strained metaphors like "The flat, heavy sunlight squirmed inside his head," the writing is fast-moving and clear. The author is stronger near the end where he flavors the story with much of the vigour of a motor marathon...
...Eliot, nosed out Dunster's Ken Culbert yesterday afternoon to win the House novice singles championship. Bill Cini of Winthrop placed third. Mike Halberstam of Dunster won the comp race, beating George Walcott of Eliot. Another Dunster man, Dirck Post, won the House wherry race, with Lowell's Erik Amfitheatrof second...
Plans for tomorrow's helicopter arrival of Magda Gabor, the "beautiful recluse," crystallized yesterday as the Metropolitan District Commission authorized a landing on the Charles River banks near Leverett House, Blood Drive Publicity Director Erik Amfitheatrof '54 announced last night...
...central passages (also referred to in the sub headline), Mr. Amfitheatrof states that". . . national tension undermined last summer's Seminars for the first time. The Germans and the Austrians, with a half of the Italian block, developed a hostility for the Americans, Belgians, French, and English, and the other half of the Italians. . . . the reappearance of national feeling at the Seminar corresponds with the overall situation in Europe, where the right wing groups discredited by the war are beginning to form again." We find these statements completely unfounded. Participants did not come to the Seminar chiefly as representatives of national...
...experience at the Salzburg Seminar was not of a pseudo-United Nations composed of wrangling member nations, as Mr. Amfitheatrof's misnomer, "General Assembly" (instead of general summer session), might suggest; nor was it by any means of an "intellectual Point Four," with the inequality of intellect and the condescension that this term implies. Obviously, there was discussion and disagreement, as is to be desired in a closely-confined intellectual community. But this vibrant atmosphere. Far from leading to the formation of hostile camps rather served as the basis for the uniquely enriching undertaking which the Seminars...