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Many faculty members, past and present, are mentioned for their "collectivist" views. These include former Communists like Richard Gorham Davis, Daniel J. Boorstin '34, Granville Hicks '23, Helen Deane Markham, Leon J. Kamin '49--no longer associated with the University--and Wendell H. Furry, associate professor of Physics. Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, emeritus, and Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, are classified as "fellow travelers" by Root...
...only University organization that was praised at all by Root, "a radical conservative," is the Harvard Conservative League, formed by Quinlan J. Shea '56, but Root asserted that the organization was "infiltered" by the "collectivist left, a boring from within, a Trojan Horse technique, which helped to disrupt the Conservative League...
Personal Rule: Since his excommunication by the Kremlin in 1948, Tito has developed a home-style Communism, depend ent on secret police and collectivist methods, but with variations characteristic of personal dictatorships. He divorced his second wife in 1947, married Jovanka, a strappingly handsome Partisan half his age, who even in evening dress looks as if she had just taken off her Sam Browne belt. Tito now lives in a palace, drinks the finest wines, hunts boar and drives in a bulletproof...
Last week police felt they had an airtight case against the Sotgius for inciting to prostitution and corruption of a minor. But when they visited the Sotgius' apartment, they found that the couple had fled. Rome's fascinated newspaper readers promptly labeled Giuseppe Sotgiu a "collectivist of love." Plainly embarrassed, the Rome section of the Communist Party banned Provincial Council President Sotgiu from all party activities until he took steps "fully to restore his honor as a citizen...
...graduate school influence has bred an anti-collegian air which has become characteristic of Harvard. The fate of the All-College Weekend is perhaps the best illustration. The tradition of social independence which inclined the undergraduate to small cocktail parties rather than beer-blasts forced this experiment in "mass, collectivist entertainment" to close its doors after losing over $500. The College just seemed to have no interest in this sort of amusement after the initial weekend two years ago. It just seemed to crumble from inertia...