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...Dissimilar as they may be in some respects, the University Houses and the Annex dorms both face the same need for expansion. In 1930, when five of the present eight dorms were standing, the Radcliffe Yearbook reported: "There is room for every single girl, be she freshman or senior, New Yorker or Cambridgeite. There is no such thing as living in an 'outside house' and running over to a dorm for meals...
Sheridan's The Critic, a mannered spoof of theater and society in the eighteenth century, is as different from Oedipus Rex as any play can be, but--partly perhaps because it is so dissimilar--it makes an attractive companion piece to the great tragedy. This play has aged more in its much shorter existence than the Greek drama, yet it still retains much life because many of the subjects of its barbs, including drama criticism and the press, are very much with us today...
Spiritual Geography. The autobiography, long out of print and first published about 40 years ago, reveals still another James, dissimilar though at times more trenchant than the Henry Adams of the Education. It covers little more than James's first 26 years, and its editor, F. W. Dupee, an able biographer of James, concedes that it is written in the novelist's "late late style," which makes some of its insights tortuous though rewarding. But the book offers undivided nostalgic charm in its portrait of the carriage-trade world of pre-Civil War New York. And for those...
...Eggheads, Arise!" From those dissimilar starts, Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefauver last week began their duel in the sunshine-the preferential primary fight for California's 68 votes at the Democratic National Convention. At the beginning it did not seem much of a fight. Almost all of the party leaders and Democratic money in California are pledged for Stevenson. Kefauver's supporters could only resort to an appeal over the heads of the leaders; they had to cancel a scheduled television show at week's end because they did not have enough money...
Gunter himself played a large part in the student government of the University, but he considers this dissimilar to U.S. extra-curricular activities. "The main purpose is practical," he states in describing his duties as admissions official and student-faculty representative. In the first of these student-elected posts, Gunter, along with one professor decided on all admissions to his department of study. The next year, as representative for all Berlin's economics students, he joined with regular faculty members in administering the department...