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...NADIR KAMRAN New York City...
...zenith of Radcliffe political activity came in 1948 with 11% of the student body enrolled in partisan clubs. The nadir stretched from 1920 to 1939 when there were no political clubs...
...were immediate cries of triumph from labor and its backers. By the next morning, however, the smoke had cleared sufficiently to reveal one depressing fact: the Taft-Hartley statue was still on the books. As long as it says there, we haven't come back very far from the nadir of June, 1947, when the law was passed...
...MacLeish, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for a strong and gorgeous narrative poem on the conquest of Mexico (Conquistador), began, in the middle '30s, to write poetic manifestoes of state in which the oratorical interest outgrew the poetic. Moreover, both kinds of interest deteriorated, reaching a nadir in a thin book of thin versified prattle called America Was Promises, in 1939. In that year MacLeish had accepted the first of a series of public offices: that of Librarian of Congress. He also became successively head of the Office of Facts and Figures, assistant director of OWL Assistant...
...except for a slight rally in the 1938-39, a continued decline persisted to the nadir of 1,249 at the time when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor...