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Heretofore, studying Russian at Harvard has been the privilege of a diligent few. The notorious difficulty of Aab and Bab, full courses compressed into a single term each, has discouraged many people who would prefer Russian to German or the Romance languages. Credit for two courses is small consolation for...
Political Career: In 1949 Illinoisan Proxmire moved to Wisconsin as the kind of liberal state, La Follette and all that, that might enshrine a liberal political career. He worked as a reporter for the New Dealing Madison Capital Times, as business manager for the local A.F.L.'s Union Labor...
By 10:30, when a truckload of soup stood ready to be unloaded and passed out by a detachment of police, the hungry prisoners were hammering and pounding at the rotted wooden doors that closed their cells. A few of the old doors gave way, and the suddenly freed men...
This discipline, husband Goudeket shows, was always at hand when Colette required it. In all their 29 years together, there were no "scenes," there was no "betrayal"; only a diligent, equable harmony based on what Colette called "conjugal courtesy" and likened to the Briton nightly donning his dinner jacket in...
Ironically enough, it was the Communists themselves who seemed about to destroy any chance they may have had for inclusion in the government. All week long Red agitprop specialists spattered Djakarta's buildings with red-paint slogans supporting Sukarno's proposal. Across the city's swill-strewn...