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Last week the National Association of Chiropodists changed its name to American Podiatry Association, hoped that victims of corns, calluses and ingrown toenails would begin calling the nation's 8,000 foot doctors "podiatrists" (foot healers). To most patients the new name, like the old symptom, would be a pain in the foot...
...which recommends who should become a professor is composed of leading men in the field from Harvard and elsewhere. The Committee, supposedly, looks for and considers qualified men from the entire nation. But in practice, the Ad Hoc Committee frequently fails to limit a department's tendency to become ingrown with like minded and similarly trained men. Departments oft-times make it clear to the Committee which man they want for the job. A "fair haired" young man is groomed for a particular professorship so that the Ad Hoc Committee simply approves a choice made by the department years before...
...than Fantasy. Journalist Fleming, who, as Strix, writes a weekly essay for the Spectator, has composed a tragicomic record, a record in which the farcical is merely punctuation. If it is often the comic more than the serious that comes through, it is in part because of his own ingrown habit of mocking at perils-including his own-and, more important, because the world already knows well the sorrows and dangers and heroics that went into Great Britain's rise from disaster to victory, and needs no somber reiteration of them. Better, perhaps, to be able to smile...
...Holy Terrors is as good an example of his method as one could ask. It is beyond question a literary tour de force. It is the story of a beautiful brother and sister, who, orphaned in adolescence, sink deeper and deeper into an ingrown world of dreams until they destroy themselves and the friends whom they fascinate. The psychological intricacies of this tale and the plausibilities of Cocteau's conclusions are interesting subjects for the discussions of many Cambridge types. But the clinical validity of the book has little bearing on its artistic stature...
...history subjects given in the past have disappeared. Non-specialized music-lovers used to be welcome in The Symphony, Chamber Music, Bach, Madrigals and Opera, but these courses exist no longer. In a University with any kind of scope, departments such as Music should not be allowed to become ingrown...