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...Bear's Share. In the year since Panmunjom, between 5,000,000 and 7,000,000 hungry, mostly jobless, often nomadic North Koreans* have watched a prosperous brood of Russians, Red Chinese and assorted satellites descend upon their country's rubble, poking through blasted factories, tinkering with ancient generators and spinning frames, burrowing into blocked-off coal mines. Last week about 8,000 North Koreans were at work converting downtown Pyongyang into the showplace of a new Red colony, with the usual shiny Stalin Boulevard and a marble International Hotel (185 rooms with bath), in preparation...
Moscow may crow about its subway system, and Parisiennes make love in the "Metro," but nobody likes the MTA. Armed with a home-town Newspaper, the pedestrian has merely to descend into the Harvard Square station to reason why: the price of a ride has risen to twenty cents...
While not meant to be pleasant, exams should at least be seen. Yet this year, ten shifts of students are scheduled to descend to Fogg Large Lecture Room for a squinting chance of seeing their exams. Its wretched lighting and discomfort have been a source of complaint for years, but Fogg still rates as one of the Administration's favorite testing grounds...
Even if everyone did descend on the IAB--which seems to be the hope of the organized fun faction--there would not be enough room for them. The IAB as a dance floor has certain very obvious limitations...
Although Dawson, along with Dante and Langland, sometimes stops for a quiet tear over medieval man's passing, he is far more interested in communicating the worth of medieval man-his feeling for spirituality, his sense of social commu nity, his universal values-to his descend ants in modern Europe. For one thing, the medieval "world of Christian culture" is more akin to the present than the humanist traditions that have governed Europe since the Renaissance...