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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...courses which were not in the top ten last year have made the list for 1958-59. Ranking ninth and tenth respectively, they are English 7 with an enrollment of 341 and Soc. Sci. 4 with an enrollment...
...Gaulle lost no time in showing Guinea the price of saying no. A special envoy rushed down from Paris, ticked off to Touré the dreaded list of things to come. All French public servants, technicians and army units would leave within three months. Financial aid would cease, and Guinea's exports (coffee, bananas, bauxite) would be subject to the same stiff tariffs as those of other foreign countries. As the French tricolor vanished from the land, Touré began to hope that, having slammed the door, he would not find it irrevocably locked behind him. He hailed France...
...question put by Columbia Dean Jacques Barzun in the foreword: "Why has the American college and university so little connection with Intellect?" In language that is often witty and only occasionally typical of sociology's bread-pudding prose, Professors Caplow (University of Minnesota) and McGee (University of Texas) list academe's hurtful mores and petty machinations. Some of the worst...
Conformity. Not surprisingly, the authors list agreement with one's department head as a must for advancement. But conformity reaches beyond scholarly dogmas. One teacher complained that his department head "believed that conviviality and sociability were the prime qualities for a professor. We had parties twice a month, played golf, etc. all the time. We also had a lousy department...
...usually reserved for prima donnas. San Francisco's Vienna-born Kurt Herbert Adler tore into Vienna-born Rudi Bing, pointed out that the San Francisco company has welcomed such artists as Tebaldi, Del Monaco, Christoff, Siminonato, Valletti, Gobbi, Schwarzkopf and Rysanek for their U.S. debuts, can boast a list of U.S. premieres that puts the Met to shame. Last week San Francisco gave the first U.S. stage performances of two short works by German Composer Carl Orff-Die Kluge and Carmina Burana. Other noted San Francisco firsts: Walton's Troilus and Cressida, Poulenc's Carmelites, Honegger...