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...schools are only six blocks apart; all first-and second-graders would attend one school, all third-to sixth-graders the other. One Jewish mother's reaction: "If the Negroes want to get ahead, why don't they do what we Jews did?" Said disheartened Rabbi Myron Fenster: "What the whites are saying is: 'If the whole society is rotten, why start with me? I don't want to take the first step. I want to take the last step...
...Pius ignored Allied pressure to speak out against Nazi genocide. In the autumn of 1942, Myron C. Taylor, Franklin Roosevelt's personal representative to the Vatican, gave the Holy See evidence of the anti-Jewish campaign, and the U.S. Minister to Switzerland warned the Vatican that failure to condemn these atrocities "is undermining faith both in the church and in the Holy Father himself." Baron Ernst von Weizsaecker, who claimed that he tried to protect the Pope from Hitler's wrath while serving as German envoy to the Holy See, cabled his Foreign Ministry superiors: "The Pope...
...nings are profoundly misunderstood and condemned. Unless the legitimacy of the best elements in their sexual aspirations is frankly acknowledged and respected by the administration and faculty, students may well come to feel that no meaningful and growth furthering dialogue can occur between the generations on this vital issue. Myron W. Sharaf...
...once said of this magazine," commented Executive Editor Myron Kolatch, 33, "that if we could turn our influence into affluence, we'd never have to worry about the future." The New Leader, a Manhattan-based biweekly with a circulation of only 28,500, wields influence out of all proportion to its size. It operates with a fulltime editorial staff of just three young men, threadbare offices and a chronic deficit. But to its loyal readers it remains one of the best journals of analysis and opinion in the U.S., distinguished for its international coverage and lucid reports of Soviet...
...important part of the day's activities will be a speech in Italian by Myron P. Gilmore, professor of History, who will discuss the history of Harvard's cultural ties with Florence and the significance of Lowell's Dante studies. Lowell was one of the founders of the Dante Society and did much to popularize Dante studies in this country. Gilmore's address will be given in the Palazzo Vecchio, an imposing stone structure that dates back centuries to the beginning of the Florentine Republic...