Word: kindness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next level of attack is on the matter of economy. Some people, upon seeing a chair or a desk 70 years old, feel automatically urged, by a kind of reflex action, to buy a new one. Others like myself, equally automatically, would cherish it, looking forward to the day when it will...
Lost In the Stars (words by Maxwell Anderson; music by Kurt Weill; produced by the Playwrights' Company) refashions Alan Paton's moving story of South African race relations, Cry, the Beloved Country, into a kind of choral drama. It tells of an old Negro's search for his errant son, who has killed a great white champion of the Negro race, of the boy's repentance and death, and of the symbolic coming-together of the two stricken fathers...
...worst punishment that can be meted out in cases of this kind, according to Bender, is severance from the College. Unlike expulsion, this means that the men can be readmitted to Harvard. The least measure, he said, would probably be probation, although a few students may escape punishment completely...
Every senior will receive a letter from the Student Placement Office today reminding him that he may soon have to go to work. The form letters, mailed out over the weekend, are a regular feature of the Placement Office's annual drive to help graduating students get the kind of jobs they want...
...story of "The Father" is quite simple. A husband and wife are fighting a war of brains for the control of their daughter. The battle has been going on for some time and in the 24-hour course of the play the immediate cause of the trouble is what kind of an education the girl shall have. In order to strengthen her side, the mother hints that her husband is not the girl's father. Suspicion foments in his mind, he suffers an attack of insanity, and the wife then wins control over "her" child...