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...huge hands, impressing earnest undergraduates by throwing around such terms as "technocratic populist" and "social pluralism." When wit was required, he had it. Why does California have such extremes of right and left in its politics? "We have such a lush climate that both fruits and nuts flourish." What would he have done if he had been Nixon's campaign manager? "Cut my throat." Did he have any advice to the Yaleman who wants to go into politics? "Take a postgraduate course at Harvard." Did he have visions of becoming California's Governor one day? Said Big Daddy...
Long after the popular fad of commercial treatment of folk songs for profit has died, the songs will continue to live and flourish...
...Dancing with Fonteyn, Nureyev has gained in control and assurance without losing any of the instinctive stage sense that made him an immediate hit. Audiences seem absorbed with every movement of his small, compact body, every expression of his high-cheekboned face. When he has completed a flourish of movements, he has a trick of presenting himself to the audience with shoulders thrown back and arms outstretched, calling for the ovation that never fails to come. His ability to rivet attention on himself-whether in a soaring lift, a pantherlike leap, or a flamboyant succession of jetes-is so marked...
Like the century in which he has for so long been so interested, Elliott Perkins has a passionate concern in the worth and potentialities of every individual, and he has devoted his own tremendous energies both to helping other and to making Harvard a better place for them to flourish. If one cannot call his impending retirement an immeasurable loss to the community, that is only because it is a loss whose effects can be measured--and only too precisely: the post-Perkins Harvard will be increasingly mechanized, soulless and Holyoke Centered institution...
...Flourish or Flounder. The calculated result of such hands-off supervision is a press confederacy whose members take strength from association but are permitted to flourish or flounder almost entirely on their own. Scripps-Howard papers do both, in a pattern as diversified as the U.S. press at large. Items: > Perennially third in a field of three papers, the tabloid Washington Daily News not only returns a tidy profit but has taught its bigger competitors a journalistic trick or two. Shrewdly leaving politics to the Post (Democratically inclined) and the Star (Republican), bulky, freckled Editor John O'Rourke beams...