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...latest skirmish in the battle between aesthetes and sociologists has proved inconclusive. Clive Barnes, dance critic for the New York Times, took steps to parry a Harvard sociologist's study of dancing, but his sarcasm couldn't diminish the deadpan humor of the scientist's study...
...Nicolson's notes are full of first names and nicknames, and it is sometimes hard to tell whether he is talking about the Beefsteak Club or the House of Commons. Mixed with his uncommon sensitivity to great events there is an uncommon delight in gossip. This does not diminish the worth of the book. If history, as Carlyle said, is really the biographies of great men, it is also their gossip...
Returns from Monday's CRIMSON rock 'n' roll quiz reveal the pressing urgency of a course in this important subject. Harvard has always been considered a barren field for this corn, but each succeeding year that it is allowed to lie fallow the prospects of a respectable harvest will diminish. At one time and in proper places almost all the songs referred to in the quiz were commonly played, and often prayed to. But with the trend toward younger generations, a whole culture may soon be lost...
...same time, there were signs that Washington's new toughness toward the enemy-and possibly greater candor in discussing its aims-may muffle the long-running domestic debate and even diminish the growing disconnection between those who think it a just and justifiable war and those who have argued that it should be ended at almost any price. In the Senate, Kentucky Republican Thruston Morton attacked both groups for indulging in "verbal overkill" in the debate, warning that "loose talk on the one hand, and deplorable, even illegal behavior on the other, both tend to heighten current misunderstanding...
...player, senior Charlie Hoeveler, is a polished lefty who went undefeated in Eastern competition last year before being upset by Harvard's Bernie Adelsberg in the New England tournament. Bill Kirkpatrick and Kurt Anderson, at two and three, are also strong players, and the line-up does not diminish appreciably lower down...