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What the Departments which were dismembered when the axe fell last June must do, is to test the Administration's good faith by recommending for promotion to frozen associate professorships enough of the forgotten ten to restore their departments to academic competency. A paper victory is no victory at all. But even if all the fired assistants were taken back on permanent tenure, deep and troublesome doubts would remain. Should a self-perpetuating body of businessmen and lawyers have life and death power over Harvard? Is an autocracy, however benevolent, the best way of running a college which...
Rushing into the flames with axe and hose, the youths aided the understaffed volunteer fire departments of the neighboring towns in quelling the blaze that arose from a clogged oil burner...
Lest you forget, however, "The University" also had an axe to grind...
...Largo" is a play with an axe to grind. Plot and cast are subordinate to the grinding. So is the entertainment value. But with such men as McClintic, Mielziner, and Muni at the helm of the production, the element of entertainment is far from gone. McClintic and Mielziner are up to standard,--that is praise enough. As for Paul Muni, he's been sun-bathing out in the wilderness of California far too long. He belongs on the stage. He belongs in front of an audience he can feel and which in turn can feel the dynamite of his personality...
...plans, indeed all the minute and intimate details of everyday life are governed by this possible disaster of death from the skies, and what is much worse than death-mutilation and disorgan-zation generally. As you can imagine, the advertising business has caught it where the chicken caught the axe. Many of our young men were called up; and we have been engaged in the distressing task of reducing our staff, as well as making drastic reductions in our incomes...