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With this modicum of inconvenience, Harkness interhouse could soon begin. Besides offering a change in menu, it would narrow the social gap between the undergraduate and the graduate student...
...label "Operation Quagmire," Matt Ridgway put out a bitter analysis of the Communist truce tactics: "The Communist plan...has called for a temporary show of progress following each period of complete delay. The Communists have known that, at certain times throughout the talks, they must inject a certain modicum of achievement as the price for their main program of bargaining inertia. This is part of the Communist war of nerves. Hope must be raised and dashed .according to schedule" (TIME, Feb. 18). This analysis seemed correct at the time; it still seems so today...
...worthy production would demand Fry's own intangible sense of beauty, and it is this sense which is too lacking in the H.D.C.-Canterbury Player version. Considering that most of the players have had little acting experience. Director Lester Gilmore deserves much praise for bringing out a modicum of good drama. Most polished of his performers are the comical John Kettlewell and Janet Sobel; Robert E. Brasbares in the lead role has flashes of brilliance, but his delivery is too often forensic...
...Marxism proved another "disappointing" path. "I had to work out these things for myself within myself," Spender decided. His autobiography ends nonetheless with this essential work suspended. "Now I am a middle-aged man [42], in the center of life and rotted by a modicum of success, surrounded on the one hand by material responsibilities and on the other by material achievements...
What is certain today is only the modicum of information available one week after the February resignation--but, the man will be under 40 and second, he must be a Harvard graduate...