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...that the Class of '42 was not conservative explains too little. There was a claminess to the Harvard tradition of the early '40s, capable of gluing ardent faith in the New Deal and proper Republicanism together. When the Class of '42 were freshman, a delegation of "seven Harvard liberals and two Radcliffe New Dealers" went to call on flamboyant Boston Mayor James M. Curley. They were going to urge him to adopt a New Deal platform in the interest of "the Middle Class voting block," the CRIMSON said, "which Curley has reached only slightly, but which might be a valuable...
...poetic renaissance. Allen Tate and John Crowe Ransom, fathers of the "New Criticism," had done much to impose form and coherence on the gaseous and self-indulgent free-verse fashion of the time. Thus Lowell at 20 found himself at a reform school-poetic reform. When he arrived "ardent and eccentric...
Shipwreck and sea-wrack and sea-tangle Survive the dark magmas foundering Kelson and sextants relinquish a wrangle In souls from breached flesh combustions wring A subtlety alembicked and affined To ardent basalts...
...Administration has so far shied away from an ardent defense of the guidelines, and has instead made token efforts to placate the Southerners. It has transferred authority for enforcement of the guidelines from the office of Education Commissioner Harold Howe to the office of Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare John Gardner. And Gardner has announced that compliance with the guidelines will be supervised by Southerners rather than the Northerners that local school officials found intolerably conscientious...
...improving the cure rate lies not in more sophisticated technology but in a return to the use of the human eye, aided by magnifying lenses, for direct examination of tissues in which disease may be developing. The technique is called colposcopy (pronounced col-poss-cuppy), and its most ardent proponent is the University of Mississippi's Dr. Karl A. Bolten, who learned it from its inventor in Bolten's native Germany...