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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Overtones of the Oedipus complex are subtly woven into the main theme. Mother love is a distraction on the path to perfection...
...faculty-student discussion of American policy toward Red China; that club B announced for Wednesday evening a musical recital; that Club C announced for Friday night a panel discussion of the university's admission policy. . . . If you will simply suppose all this you will see at once the main thing which in my opinion is now lacking on Prospect Street. . . . In general the undergraduates' attitude toward the Street is an attitude that bifurcates it from the serious intellectual life of the university...
...Committee on Science in General Education was, of course, well aware of this fact, and one feels that what the report would really like to do is to create an interest in science, or at least a respect for the work of the scientist. One of the main problems facing science in America is that the well educated non-scientists, on the one hand, tend to look upon science as an inferior intellectual pursuit, one that neglects the really important things in life, while the less highly educated view the scientist as either a fabulous magician-type...
Ilya Glazanov, 28, chose the third path and invoked the wrath of Culture Minister Mikhailov. Last year he exhibited a one-man show whose main interest point was a modest picture of his beautiful wife Nina lying nude on a bed. Man-in-the-street comments ran from "beautiful woman" to "shocking bourgeois immorality...
...Main Street, U.S.S.R., Irving Levine relates the jokes told in Moscow by and about Russians. Some of them...