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Facing reductions in the size of the student body, of their audiences, and of their till receipts throughout the wartime period, the Harvard Dramatic Club nevertheless put up a brave fight for survival. They produced such plays as "Owen Wingrave," "Much Ado About Nothing," and "The Misanthrope." Now on the docket for spring production is Maxwell Anderson's "Winterset...
...times to start a literary magazine in Britain, Cyril Connolly picked December 1939. Europe's lights were blinking out, and England was in for it, when he lit his brave little cultural candle. He called it Horizon, and got a millionaire milkman's son to foot the bills...
...paper, Washington's indictment of Franco as the nonbelligerent lackey of Hitler and Mussolini was damning and determined. The Allied manifesto addressed to "leading" Spaniards was daring, high-principled and humane. But, as practical measures, what did they amount to? Would huffing & puffing blow Franco down? Would the brave words be buttressed by bold diplomacy? If so, would there be repercussions that might not only drive the Generalissimo from power but also upset still further the uneasy balance of Europe...
...chance to implement his brave new words lay embarrassingly close at hand. This week Iran asked the U.S. to protest Russia's action there. Russia's refusal to quit Azerbaijan (see FOREIGN NEWS) could well be interpreted as: 1) the "unilateral gnawing away of the status quo"; 2) aggression by "coercion or pressure"; 3) an entering wedge "for further and undisclosed penetration of power"; or even 4) "a war of nerves to achieve strategic ends...
...easily into a friendly, crooked smile. Until Dean Blanding marched in with her spaniel Shadow, no dog had ever crossed the decorous threshold of Cornell's Martha Van Rensselaer Hall. Within a week dogs were almost as common there as professors. Each spring she was the first to brave Cayuga's icy waters, the last to quit swimming in the lake in the fall. She sometimes gave dinners for 30 people which, without help, she cooked am served herself...