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...That's news to me." exclaimed Mississippi's Governor Ross Barnett. "I hadn't even dreamed of it." Barnett had just been informed that the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had ordered the Department of Justice to bring criminal contempt charges against him and his lieutenant governor, Paul B. Johnson Jr.. for their part in obstructing the entrance of Negro James Meredith to the University of Mississippi. Barnett may have been dismayed by the news, but he could hardly have been surprised ; as a highly successful lawyer in private life, he must have known that...
These cultists often display unconcealed, and somewhat exaggerated, contempt for entertaining groups like the Kingston Trio and the Limeliters. Folk singing is a religion, in the purists' lexicon, and the big corporate trios are its money-changing De Milles. The high pantheon is made up of all the shiftless geniuses who have shouted the songs of their forebears into tape recorders provided by the Library of Congress. These country "authentics...
Like Pakistan's Ayub Khan, one of his heroes, Park has a soldier's contempt for politicians, would not dream of letting them ruin his work with their "parliamentary impotency." In addition to a popularly elected President, who will be chosen in March to a four-year term, the new constitution provides for a Premier whose role is limited to liaison man be tween the President and a unicameral legislature of 150 to 200 members who will have no veto powers over the executive. The President, on the other hand, is given enough power to make Charles...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra ain't what she used to be. A century ago, according to the minutes in the Harvard Archive, the conductor needed to impress "on this Society the necessity of minding the pianos and fortes which have always been treated with more or less contempt in this Society." Not so Friday evening: Dr. Henry Swoboda, in his first Cambridge appearance, and a new, bigger-than-ever HRO, gave their audience the sight and sound of a professional symphony orchestra...
Harvard English professors have expressed surprise and some disappointment at the selection of John Steinbeck for the 1962 Nobel Prize for Literature. The choice "isn't beneath contempt," as one member of the English Department put it, but nearly everyone contacted thought there could have been a better choice...