Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Miss Bergman struggles admirably against these handicaps to portray a displaced Czech who marries a young fisherman solely to escape from the life of a DP camp. The difficulties encountered by the girl in trying to fit into the almost primitive life of her husband's native fishing village on the volcanic island of Stromboli are supposed to lead to her religious conversion...
Walter Abel as Gavin also suffers even more from this typing; he is cast as a representative of southern aristocracy with all the caricature that casting can imply. For some reason Mr. Logan has seen fit to equip this southern gentleman with a set of dice which he rolls intermittently throughout the play, an ineffective attempt at naturalism...
Harvard was big news last weekend in Washington and Baltimore newspapers. They carried copy to the effect that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of the nation's oldest university had seen fit to dispatch a note to the Navy objecting to the "informer clause" of the NROTC loyalty certificate...
...natural law." And the safeguards of the family as an institution must be carefully fostered among adolescents: "What [adolescents] do during the difficult premarriage period may well influence their whole lives. If they give in to sexual desire without restraint, it is not to be expected that they will fit into a pattern of stable married life without a struggle . . . What comes cheaply is not valued highly. But even more important, when a man knowingly deviates from the moral law, his ability to resist further temptation is weakened. Habit and the memory of sin are not easily effaced...
...think I can speak for a large segment of the alumni when I say that I do sincerely hope that these men see fit to maintain a respectable intercollegiate athletic program at Harvard College. They will search far before they will find a more cohesive force among a graduate body whose loyalty and generosity have helped make Harvard University an outstanding educational institution. Donald E. Greenholz...