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Freshman 150 Ib. Crew; Harvard Mountaineering Club; Harvard Ski Club (Vice-President); Eliot House Crew (To Henley Royal Regatta, England); Christian Science Organization (Treasurer and Vice President); Dramatics; Winthrop House ("Guys and Dolls"); HDC ("Trolius and Cressida," "Caucasian Chalk Circle"); NROTC...
...free, the rice wine good, and the propaganda heady for the delegates of emerging young nations whose economic problems and recent revolutionary triumphs seem so similar to those Red China itself has experienced. Yellow skin is also an advantage in places where the classic colonialist enemy bears a clear Caucasian label. Feted in Peking two months ago, Guinea's Sékou Touré seemed more cordially at ease than he was on his later visit to Moscow...
...interest" is manifested at the University in the forthcoming production of Brecht's Caucasian Chalk Circle at Loeb. Bentley, who is himself taking an active interest in the production, is enthusiastic over the theater's "possibilities." He considers the play "the final statement of Brecht's development," in that it is "the most poetic in a non-cynical way; the most mellow; and, in a way not associated with Brecht, the most delicate. In other words, it is Brecht saying the same things, but with less savagery...
...heroes all seem to be sixfoot-three, thundering horsemen, invincible sword fighters and high-bouncing lovers; if the story were fiction, critics could complain that the earth does not breed such men. But Author Lesley Blanch has discovered an episode-Russia's efforts to subdue the Caucasian mountain tribes during the first half of the 19th century -which abounds in authentic hell-and-crinoline raisers, and she describes it with enormous relish. Not much romanticizing is necessary; the source material is generally incandescent...
...trouble was that the dead man, a George Vincent Nash, was an Indian, and White Chapel is "restricted to members of the Caucasian race." White Chapel officials insisted on sticking to the letter of the rule, even though Nash's wife, only part Indian, had been buried in the adjoining lot back in 1949. Sniffed E. Reed Hunt, president of a cemetery association that includes White Chapel: "If we made an exception in this case, some 40,000 plot owners would be able to take action against the cemetery because they paid for the restriction...