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...define "bleeding heart" but freely conceded that his position was "to the left of both McCarthy and Louis XIV." The advisory council, he pointed out, had consisted of 25 U.S. educators, ranging from the University of Chicago's Robert Hutchins to Smith College's late William Allan Neilson, and the summer school session had been canceled by the Soviet government before it ever got started. In answer to the continuing barrage of McCarthy charges, Murrow contented himself with observing: "The Senator's language appears to be deteriorating...
Both male and female choruses are uniformly excellent in their singing. Actually, only their slight confusion as to proper methods of chorus acting keep them from looking, as well as sounding, professional. The standout exceptions are Kent Neilson and Hugh Moffet who maintain expression and vitality all the way through. Gerry Caruthers, also keeps plugging, and a fine make up job has him looking like the most comic pirate since the days of the elder D'Oyly Carte. Among the girls, Phyllis Bodel wins chorus honors with her pert and enthusiastic performance...
Poet W. H. Auden, a recent collaborator on the libretto for The Rake's Progress by Igor Stravinsky, was appointed to the William Allan Neilson Research Professorship at Smith College...
Much of Lace has the air of a sermon. But it achieves a pinch of satire too, through alternating the McNairns' delight, in Dr. Johnson's phrase, over leveling up with their sniffiness about leveling down. And as Alexandra, young (14) Perlita Neilson brightens several scenes with her urbane self-possession. But the play in general has all the velocity of flowing molasses, and a good deal of its stickiness. Tragically short for the two girls, their friendship comes to seem like a lifelong affair to the audience...
...years of Smith's history, there have been five president's all male. When Laurenus Clark Seeyle began his work in 1875 the community was comprised of six faculty members, 14 students, and 13 acres of land. Through the regimes of Marion LeRoy Burton, William Allan Neilson and Herbert Davis the college continued to grow, and grow until it reached its present state, the largest woman's college in the world...