Word: classics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Bill Holland, 40, husky Philadelphian who went from speed skating to auto racing, won this year's 500-mile classic at Indianapolis; and Ruth Dannie Asmussen, 22; in Miami...
...Bicycle Thief. Italian Director Vittorio (Shoeshine) De Sica's carefully made classic of a worker and his small child hopelessly scouring Rome for a stolen bicycle (TIME...
...Triumph," one of the "classic" films of German propaganda, describes a yearly meeting of the Nazi Party at Nuremberg between 1934 to 1936, when the party was at the height of its power. Directed by Lent Rifenstahl, who also filmed the Berlin Olymples, it emphasizes and illustrates the "glorious destiny" of the party...
...Professor Samuel Eliot Morison's massive history of the Navy in World War II. What war at sea meant for the Germans was compactly set down in Anthony Martienssen's Hitler and His Admirals, written from captured Nazi records. One book seemed certain to become a minor classic of its kind: British Captain Russell Grenfell's The Bismarck Episode, a terse description of the pursuit and destruction of the mighty German battleship in the greatest sea hunt in naval history. Of the books of personal war experiences, two were outstanding: Norwegian Odd Nansen's From...
Students too, and their organizations, should have the same rights. This is not merely an espousal of the liberal tradition under which Harvard operates, but a matter of sound administrative policy. As President Lowell pointed out in his classic statement on academic freedom, a University cannot regulate its professors' freedom of action without at the same time making itself responsible for everything that professors do. The parallel with student freedoms is striking. If the Dean's Office limits the freedom of student activities in order to solve the four problems outlined in previous editorials in this series...