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...Amidst all the arguments over faculty judgement and student competence it is important to remember that the Loeb was not built merely to furnish Cambridge with a fancy esoteric theatre. It was intended as a center for Harvard dramatic activity. As such, its task is not merely to present two or three polished productions a term, but to stimulate the theatrical arts in the Harvard community. And Harvard can be educated in the theatre in many ways...
...Amidst the diplomatic whirl, he could always spare a thought for his farm back in Quincy, invariably took time to investigate the quality of the local manure. The English manure was fine, wrote Adams, "but it is not equal to mine, which I composed of Horse Dung from Bracketts stable in Boston, Marsh Mud from the sea shore and Street Dust, from the Plain at the Foot of Pens hill." The Europeans found him "a Character...
...thought ourselves solitary admirers of Salinger are, on the contrary, members of a vast crowd. Writing is a quiet art-its audience does not queue up at a Carnegie Hall or a Guggenheim Museum. But the Salinger who interprets the singular and lonely person trying to stay intact amidst the reality of thousands must feel as out of place facing the thousands...
Hunched over the blue-clothed table, U.S. Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon scrawled his answer on a pad as Guevara talked. He kept on writing even after Guevara finished and slumped into his chair amidst eloquent silence. Then Dillon waved his Estados Unidos name plate at the chairman, and stood up to reply. Castro would get no U.S. aid, no U.S. recognition, said Dillon. "Unfortunately, the delegate of Cuba has tried to give the implication that the U.S. somehow recognizes the permanence of the present regime in Cuba. This we do not do and never will do, because...
...Coming closer to home, an Indian chief holds storytelling sessions. No-good varmints hold up the bank, the post office, the train, the stagecoach ride; and the legendary Judge Roy Bean administers his rule of "Law West of the Pecos," calling for the noose and provoking jail breaks. When amidst such adventuring a kid gets lost, he is sent to the Johnson's Creek School, where he has to sit at a slant-top desk until his parents reclaim...