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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...identify and fortify the free world in its struggle against Communism. We cannot proclaim this integrity when the issue is easy-and stifle it when the issue is hard. To do this would be to do something much worse than merely making our great struggle in the world more difficult. For if we were ever to lose that integrity, there would be no way to win a true victory in that struggle...
...result of all these stupendous efforts? Something roughly comparable to an eight-foot chorus girl-pretty well put together, but much too big and much too flashy. And sometimes DeMille is worse than merely flashy. It is difficult to find another instance in which so large a golden calf has been set up without objection from religious leaders. With insuperable piety, Cinemogul DeMille claims that he has tried "to translate the Bible back to its original form." the form in which it was lived. Yet what he has really done is to throw sex and sand into the movie goer...
...return from the war, Taylor found it difficult to adjust to academic life. Since 1940 he had done no thinking along medieval lines, and he discovered that he was "cold," that his old notes no longer meant anything to him. In addition, he faced the problem of whether or not to continue working on military history part time. After a year of inner debate, he finally decided to devote all his efforts to the University...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra attempted some difficult music at its concert in Sanders Theater last Friday evening. As could be expected of a largely amateur group, the orchestra played with no great precision of intonation, steadiness of rhythm, or clearness of entrance. But its real sin lay deeper. The performances lacked life, and so the structures of sound which the group was trying to build often sagged and even tumbled...
...known as Still's disease) or late in life, but is commonest in the 305, when it strikes three times as many women as men. (Possibly related is rheumatoid spondylitis, or arthritis of the spine, which singles out young men.) Usually attacks virtually all joints in the limbs. Difficult to diagnose, but in 1930 Dr. Russell L. Cecil, now medical director of the Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation, discovered a clumping factor in the blood serum of patients that has led to a promising test...