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...State Department that military aid is a panacea in the fight against Communism. To return to the early days of the Truman Doctrine or the Marshall Plan when the U.S. seized the tactical offense in the cold war, however, would not be feasible. Such a shift would neglect the primacy of a military balance of power, necessary as the Soviet menace has increased. But the requirements for rifles and tanks should not obscure the advantages of economic and technical assistance...
...Messiah performance could be slapped together in little rehearsal time." The orchestra held nine rehearsals, hired the best available choral conductor, and treated us to the best solo quartet we've heard in Sanders. They went to the trouble of assembling a chorus. to accuse these students of neglect after so much work is to run the risk of discouraging such enthusiasm in the future...
After the exposition closed, Dufy's mural, too big for 3 exhibition, was stored away from public view in 250 sections. The artist, who considered La Fée Electricité one of his masterpieces, worried over its neglect, and sought some way to keep his gigantic work on view. The answer was provided by a Paris publisher, who proposed that Dufy reproduce the mural as a color lithograph. Dufy set to work in 1951 and, shortly before his death in March 1953, completed the most ambitious lithography project ever undertaken: three feet high by 20 wide, done...
...from E. S. Harkness, a gift which probably had also been offered to Harvard and turned down. The reaction was immediate and indignant. The CRIMSON wrote a vituperative editorial which laid the blame for Baker's resignation squarely at the feet of the President and Overseers and their "shameful neglect" of Baker. "Their guilt must not go unnoticed," the editorial declared, "Not in years has there been such a justified need for an outburst of indignation from every Harvard man against the powers that be in the University...
Somehow our ex-Chief Executive's denial of any negligence or wrongdoing reminds me of a doctor who, through neglect of proper sanitation procedures, carelessly infected some ten or twelve patients. When queried about this carelessness, he retorted, "Well, I cured all the infections, didn...