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...Graham-White to deal with; and his bad taste is consistent. I like as much kootch in my hootch as the next man, but there were moments when I felt myself compromised by what was going on up there. For one example, instead of having Stephen Canfield (Daniel Cheever), Ninotcha's American, merely kiss his frosty Russian, he has the two of them roll on the floor. Can you imagine Melvyn Douglas rolling on the floor? Did Mr. Cheever imagine he would have to roll on the floor? To his credit, I think he did not, for he seemed embarrassed...
...Misses Fay and Ware actually don't have to go it alone all the way; at times Cheever makes the puzzling role of Steve Canfield (half charmer, half shyster) coherent, and Ninotchka's infatuation becomes reasonably credible; and as the three Russian stooges, Ivanov, Brankov and Bibinsky (Hail Bibinsky!), Ken Howland, John Kemp and Toby Walker have their moments. They are the real burlesque comedians, and in the scenes that have received some direction, they are very funny indeed. And, as the door-man of the ritzy hotel where capitalism (and Canfield) seduce Ninotchka, Geoffrey Cowan is the only believable...
Griswold's report again focuses attention on the controversial issues of federal aid to education raised by the Cheever report, "Harvard and the Federal Government," and discussed by President Pusey in his June speech to the alumni association...
...Cheever report indicates, Griswold said, that virtually all the facilities which were built, modernized, and remodeled with federal funds are in the fields of the natural sciences and medicine...
These mumblings are not only inadequate but lamentably unimaginative. The Cheever Report's emphasis upon preserving extant balances within Harvard utterly failed to explain why the status quo should be considered ideal and showed no conception of ways in which Federal aid might be used to create new and more flexible patterns of learning and research. The rising stars of American educations, such as Brekeley and Michigan, are reaching greatness by effective use of government, are reaching greatness by effective use of government support. If Harvard intends to eschew such innovation, it must think ahead with sufficient clarity to vince...