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During a recent BBC symposium. Author Kingsley (Lucky Jim) Amis reported that it is declining particularly among younger people "who enjoy American products without a sense of guilt and without a sense of superiority." Emphatic agreement came from Historian Marcus Cunliffe of Manchester University, who reported that the younger intellectuals "if anything, are almost too pro-American: many younger English people have a sort of Americanophilia because they have established in their own minds the contrast between our allegedly soporific, boring, class-ridden culture and this crackling culture across the Atlantic." American jazz, painting, architecture, and highbrow paperbacks all suggest...
...Harvard Pre-Law Society has announced the election of its officers for the Spring and Fall terms. Stephen D. Marcus '63, of Winthrop House and Chicago, Ill., has been chosen president; Richard C. Paull '63, of Leverett House and Westport Point, vice-president...
...Marcus Livius Drusus (?-109 B.C.), Roman tribune: "When will the republic find again a citizen like...
...Citizens' Council (no kin to the South's demagogic White Citizens' Councils), but picking up their own tabs, 146 Negro clergymen, business leaders and their wives spread through the city. Their destinations ranged from Woolworth's lunch counters to the swank Zodiac Room at Neiman-Marcus' specialty store. Nowhere were they refused service...
Particularly so, fortunately, is Robert McEntire, the Tycoon. Mr. McEntire struts roguishly and confidently, smoothing his hands over his assumed paunch and twinkling devilishly at everybody as he enjoins them didactically to "Read Pepys' diary," "Read Marcus Aurelius," "Read Walt Whitman." So, too, the ever-capable Paul Barstow, now the Aristocrat, an ex-governor and F.O. man: he gestures with the monocle, is dismayed and contented both with proper peerish disdain...