Word: eras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the swing of six years ago was arrested and a Faculty vote sent the pendulum on its way back to the position which it occupied during the Lowell era. Mathematics and Philosophy have been divided and reclassified; so that now there are only three groups. The groups have been rechristened "areas," but essentially the new rules of distribution are the same as those of ten years ago. The interpretations of what constitutes science are, perhaps, more lenient, but on the other hand the requirements are more complicated. An alert set of Freshman advisers and tutors will be needed...
...Elegy was written to a pastoral poem by John Gay, which rocks with neo-classic artificialities. Yet despite the artificialities in the poem, and occasional artificialities in the music, the simplicity and sincerity of feeling rise as a whole above artificiality, and create a minor masterpiece. Representing the modern era, Gustav Holst's Dirge for Two Veterans is included...
...power within the Soviet Union, he was one of the few old-line Bolsheviks who could talk to capitalist diplomats in their own language. He made an able traveling salesman for Joseph Stalin. At the endless, shilly-shallying, post-war conferences he was the vigorous symbol of an era when the Soviet was plugging the theory of collective security, backed every democratic move aimed at the Axis. But he was sold out all along the line...
Mostly one long flashback, the picture begins with Cagney bawling out a noisy party in the next yard, whereupon a turtlenecked Yale man of the Bum McClung era, with a Y as wide as his chest, rears above the garden wall and shouts: "I'd like to give him a taste of the good old flying wedge!" Whereupon a street band blares into The Band Played On, which plumps Cagney into such a mood of reminiscence that it is a full hour until he returns to test, and best, the good old flying wedge...
...employer has had his first experience bargaining (or wrangling) with a labor union over wages, hours, the closed shop. This week some Manhattan businessmen confronted a union contract that involved none of these things. It is such a remarkable contract that when & if it is signed, a new era in U. S. labor relations will be formally opened...