Word: existentionalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Occasionally one senses the Faulknerian miasma of decay, of gutted ruins of people and places; but the hints are few, and the meaning of the Faulknerian tragedy--the triumph of Snopesism and vulgarity--is non-existent.
On the City Council, CCA-endorsed incumbents include former Mayor Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29, former Mayor Edward A. Crane '35, Mrs. Pearl K. Wise, and Mrs. Cornelia B. Wheeler. Present Mayor Thomas M. McNamara often voted with these Councillors during his two-year term, frequently giving the CCA a slim...
Religious questioning actually leads, as many ministers point out, to a type of humanism--Christian sentiment not necessarily entailing belief in God or organized religion. This feeling, most evident among those who attend church infrequently, results from the leaven of the pragmatic, liberal Harvard education intensifying pre-existent doubts. Doubting...
Tutor-student contact in Dudley was called "almost non-existent, otherwise amicable," and "no worse than the other Houses." But other commuters have gotten to know the tutors, and their reaction was "improving," "gaining," even "excellent." Most, however, found the same barrier that exists in many of the residential Houses...
The question of whether or not graduate students should live in the Houses instead of undergraduates is not, however, the issue. The proposal which the Masters have made is a temporary way of supplying people to live in the Houses in lieu of non-existent undergraduates. Their suggestion is economically...