Word: idea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then there is the problem of Pennsylvania, Bingham is entitled to his opinion that Penn subsidizes football by scholarships, and I am not sure he is wrong; but it was a poor idea to bring this up now. For one thing, Harvard has not played Penn since 1942, so why bother discussing it at all? For another, Bingham should have realized that even if he was speaking as a private individual his position as head of the HAA implies that this is the official University opinion on Pennsylvania...
That the Soviet Union could use American non-recognition of China as "good propaganda material" is a misconceived idea, for not only does the U.S. recognize many governments other than those "of whose politics it approves," but non-recognition in 1949 also by no means precludes recognition in 1950 or after, hence would make very weak propaganda material indeed. Oliver...
...Keith, who gives one of the greatest performances I have ever seen. "Henry IV" was one of the plays which won its author, Pirandello, the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1934. It is a provocative and ingenious investigation of sanity and reality, which uses the play-within-a-play idea. But with a difference...
Because the play concerns three periods of time--the historical Henry IV, the past and present of the madman--plus the involved personal relationships of each, it is difficult to follow. One becomes further confused by the difficult of the play's idea. But at no time is the play dull. Mr. Keith, as Henry IV, acts with brilliant, sometimes incredible, imagination and control. At one point in the play, he held the audience's complete attention for at least fifteen minutes. The Brattle Company, no doubt inspired by working with such an actor, was in fine form. Bryant Halliday...
...three ex-Advocate editors who broke away to form their own magazine have no idea when their first issue will be published. A joint statement by A. Chase Shafer '51, William E. Wiggin '50, and Noris W. Darrell '51 revealed last night that "It may not appear...