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...Journey Into Night was a purgation: in it he has faced ghosts that haunted him during most of his life-time and forced him to understand and reveal them to his own soul. The result is a play which, though heavy with the pain and despair and fruitless sorrow of human life, transcends all these as a testimony to the endless and inescapable power of man's love...
...year's catalogue, and at this point any changes are more confusing than constructive. Sometimes the Committee on Educational Policy, the only central organ at all, hears of conflicts, but usually only when they are among popular courses. Generally, the faculty attitude is that attempts at rational systems are fruitless and that the scheduling of courses is and should be an organic process...
Hunt said that Powell, in his fruitless five-month search for housing, must have failed to make full use of the facilities that PBH offers. He cited a special committee for foreign and non-white students with housing problems. "It's hard to see how he could have missed all the signs directing students with problems to this committee and the Cambridge Civic Unity Committee," Hunt added...
...fouth time in ten years, it has taken a political deal to elect a mayor of Cambridge. After two fruitless weeks of balloting, Councillor Edward J. Sullivan backed into the mayor's chair after he had persuaded fellow Councillor Thomas M. McNamara to climb off the political fence and into the Sullivan camp. Next week, Sullivan will appoint McNamara chairman of the Council's Finance Committee...
...years ago, a similar deadlack developed, to be resolved only by the CCA block supporting an independent--John J. Foley--after 160 fruitless ballots had been cast. In 1948, thousands of ballots were cast before Thomas J. Neville was finally elected mayor in late April...