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...alone. It must be evaluated in the light of the very practical matter at hand. How do we stop unscrupulous politicians from making unsubstantiated attacks on American education, attacks that can hurt the proper functioning of universities? For a continuation of the type of investigation we saw Friday will heighten a fear within colleges, inhibiting free inquiry and honest opinion. Its effect on a gullible public may result not only in less funds for research, but also in a regrettable resistance to an acceptance of the ideas the university has to offer and a rejection by the community...
...person). The piano writing must reflect the external scene--now the roaring sea, now the realm of abstract speculation, now the very power of Bacchus. In all these shifting moods the composer's emotional intensity must be just a degree less than the poet's; the musical setting must heighten, not dwarf the spirit of the poetry. Finally, there is the language--the cool, stark quality of Latin in this case--to render beautiful, Mr. Bonvalot's settings fulfilled these qualifications to a remarkable dgree. The power and intelligence with which Mr. Bonvalot, one soloist, conveyed both the dramatic...
Other women's colleges have endorsed the need for a Radcliffe graduate center. "We encourage many of our students to go on to Radcliffe for their graduate work, Sarah G. Blanding, President of Vassar College, said. "I know that a Center such as you envision will inevitably heighten the experience of young women at Radcliffe...
Only occasionally, however, does The Prescott Proposals achieve any effect with these elements. The explanation lies in the authors' failure to make the committee scenes absorbing as theatre. In the first and last scenes, the international flavor of the play serves, as it should, to heighten the interest of the plot. The plot retreats, however, in the U.N. scenes and the play depends solely and vainly on the dramatic originality of a U.N. committee session on stage to retain the attention of the audience. While there is certainly an essential interest in this setting, in the gathering of nations around...
...left to Moscow, at week's end, to provide the Big Three conference with the proper atmosphere for settling Western differences. First Pravda warned that a Big Three conference was likely to heighten international tension. Then the Moscow radio rejected the West's invitation to reopen the Austrian treaty talks. Apparently Pravda was really worried about what came naturally when Western allies began bickering...