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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will be a controlled meeting to exploit the current line of Soviet foreign policy," Sigmund warned. The names of non-Communist student groups will be used by the sponsors to give the Festival the appearance of being representative although it will actually be dominated by the Communists, he contended...

Author: By Lawrence W. Feinberg, | Title: Sigmund Asks College Organizations To Refuse Official Participation In 8th World Youth Festival | 1/12/1962 | See Source »

Just to think that these pitiful men and women paid $200 each to be made fools of, by men who are neither afraid of the devil nor have any respect for God or man, but would exploit man and force him into actions of cruelty he never dreamed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 5, 1962 | 1/5/1962 | See Source »

...inspiration: "Too many irresponsible young women, eager for muse-ship, go in search of poetic recognition. Unless they have the integrity, the ruthlessness, and the certified characteristics of a real muse, they will get entangled with pseudo poets. The outcome is always sad, often sordid. Cunning pseudo poets ruthlessly exploit a pseudo muse's innocent ambitions. The ancient Irish triad is as true today as ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 15, 1961 | 12/15/1961 | See Source »

Nkrumah's closest advisers are those who toady to him the most. Interior Minister Kwaku Boateng often throws himself on his knees in Nkrumah's presence and cries: "Osagyefo, you are my God." Other associates snicker at the Osagyefo legend, but exploit it to further their own ambition. Ghana's masses are openly skeptical of the Nkrumah cult. Hit in the pocketbook by prohibitive compulsory savings taxes and threatened with jail at every turn, they are in a rebellious frame of mind. Barricaded behind Bren guns in the presidential residence, Nkrumah is becoming increasingly aware...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ghana: On to Dictatorship | 12/8/1961 | See Source »

...Fenno Heath's settings of three Blake poems, which employ only the most common place harmonies and rhythms and convey little of the poems' meanings. Indeed, several of the Whiffenpoofs' own songs were more imaginative. Heath's arrangements of two American folksongs were better, but his programming does not exploit the quality of his chorus...

Author: By William A. Weber, | Title: Yale-Harvard Glee Clubs | 11/27/1961 | See Source »

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