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...impact of the Loeb Drama Center on undergraduate dramatics will be the topic of a Student Council Forum panel discussion featuring Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, next Tuesday. MacLeish is a member of the Faculty Theatre Committee, a study group considering ways to utilize the new Center...
Other members of the panel will be Steven Aaron '57, who directed the Harvard Dramatic Club productions of Hamlet and Death of a Salesman, Joel F. Henning '61, president of the HDC, and Jan A. Hartman '61 of the Student Council...
Without clear-cut issues or personalities, diffusion results. This year, 31 City Council candidates and 21 School Committee candidates will fight on election day for the all-important first choice ballots...
Such an election inevitably will have an effect on the operation of the Council. Each man has been elected largely on his own strength. His campaign promises have frequently been limited to protestations of faithful service to his supporters and the city at large, and, thus, if he has won election by hammering upon a controversial issue such as opposition to the belt route, he is likely to find few in the Council who will stand with him to push it through. For a well-oiled political machine must have followers as well as leaders, and nine politicians each leading...
...Independents, on the other hand, not required by their supporters to present detailed stands on such issues, come into the council without any such proposals--without, in fact, any clear idea of how to vote on them. Thus, when a CCA-initiated proposal comes up for action, the Independents may vote against it because some special-interest group has requested opposition or just because they are suspicious of any sort of CCA proposal which seems to have no origin in popular demand...