Word: basic
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...things got straightened out last night in this case of Fisher vs, the Harvard Young Republican Club. All of them fall into one basic, unpleasant pattern. It is a pattern of guilt on both sides. The Club has been guilty of various underhanded political machinations--the sort of maneuvering that probably goes on in all the big undergraduate political organizations, but that has never before become general knowledge. What is more serious, it has also been guilty of encouraging Fisher, whether officially or unofficially, to do some of the things he has done. Fisher, on his side, has been guilty...
...them, sponsored by the Housing and Home Finance Agency, recommends little more than the abandoned T-E-W Bill. The other, written by a well known group of housing experts with the support of virtually every type of politically active organization, makes more progressive proposals. The basic similarity in both measures, however, indicates that the question is no longer whether or not there will be public housing as in the last session, but rather what form the program will take...
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Hour exams are additionally hard to locate since the University Printing Office is sometimes lax in sending all copies over to the library. But this is probably because Widener was never insistent. It goes back to the more basic reason, that keeping track of exams was never taken as a serious thing in the library. Whether old exams should be available at all is open to question. But since the library is doing this service, it ought to do it more efficiently...
...which I bring up not because the crack is funny, which it isn't but, because it gets at what seems to be the basic, ghastly faults in "Allegro"--faults that take a lot of the kick out of the show's occasional very brilliant scenes. These faults are, roughly, the righteousness of the plot and the resulting humorlessness of the Big Scenes. They are bad enough in themselves. What is worse, they give Richard Rodgers situations which require all the major songs to be so heavy and and serious that people leave the theater wishing there had been more...