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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prize was established in 1947 in memory of Lt. Dana Reed '43. This year's judges were Thomas Griffith senior staff editor of Time Inc publications: Elizabeth Hardwick, critic and essayist; and Mark Shorer, professor of English at the University of California at Berkeley...
...classic image of an English teacher invariably includes his having 'something in the drawer' that he's been reworking for years. 'I know I've got a play in me yet,' the stereotype says, but of course it never comes...
Just a scant year ago, Professor William Alfred was a normal Harvard English professor, noted primarily among undergraduates for his sonorous Old English recitations, his passionate lecture gesticulations, and his exasperation with the microphone of Lowell Lec. There were some rumblings about a play in-the-works but nobody paid much attention...
...banning of the NUSAS president is probably the first step in an attempt to ban the organization completely. The largest remaining multi-racial organization in South Africa, NUSAS plays a vital role in preserving the anti-government minority centered around the English-speaking universities. As it has done in the past with the Liberal Party and the Defense and Aid Fund, the South African government hopes, by removing the NUSAS leaders, to intimidate the student union's members and brand the whole body as communist. Though Vorster has admitted (with unusual sophistication) that all members of NUSAS were not communists...
...spite of the government's attacks and smears, NUSAS continues to gain the support of the English-speaking students. When the government last year banned integrated dances at the Cape Town campus, the students voted not to have any dances at all. The day after the banning was announced last week, 3000 students and professors marched through the streets of Johannesburg in protest...