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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aside, however, from the methods involved in this particular case, it is difficult to see how the Dean's Office concludes that parking violations merit probation. Probation has always been a serious matter: it is an official notification to a student that he is in serious danger of separation from the College. Students on probation may neither hold scholarships, compete for prizes, or represent the University. The measure is a just and effective instrument when used to correct academic or social misdemeanor. But when it is unexpectedly employed to prevent something that hundreds of local homeowners do in front...
...difficult to see how Israel can find a lasting solution to her problems in the near future. A negotiated peace seems to be unthinkable for the Arabs. Some elements in Israel have urged a preventive war. But even if Israeli soldiers marched to Damascus or Cairo, they could not expect to wipe out the opposition of the Arab world. War would only multiply further the legacy of hatred among the Arabs. The present divisions among the Arabs may seem to offer the Israelis a chance to politick for possible ententes with disaffected Arab states. It is doubtful, however, that...
...told the committee that it was most important to stop the boom before it began, because inflation becomes increasingly difficult to restrain due to the losses suffered by speculators. The government must make clear its intention of stopping speculation, he told the investigators, for a boom can begin even with safeguards present...
...orchestra were terrified of the man, he recalls. But the quality of the chorus impressed Muck just as it has such later BSO conductors as Pierre Monteux, serge Koussevitzky, and Charles Munch. the precedent once established in the 1917 concert, Davison's singers never again found it so difficult to get engagements with...
Such enlightened over-acting is, of course, quite difficult, and in general the cast does very well at it. Particularly convincing are Marion Spencer as the neurotic mother and Russell Enoch as her son. The latter looks very much like F. Scott Fitzgerald and plays the prep-school-boy-in-love type with just the right kind of awkwardness...