Word: note
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wish to rehearse here all the difficulty our Committee has had, going back to last May, to get a clear answer to the first basic question, whether your Association intends, as a matter of principle, to restrict your membership by considerations of race. As you note in your new letter, your group has "tended to avoid answering the questions whether we shall have restricted membership or not." As recently as October 21, the Faculty Committee was given quite specific written assurances from you and your associat, on the one hand that you had no intention to be exclusive on racial...
Miss Jellicoe is apparently a great believer in the use of seemingly irrelevant gimmicks to "reinforce the total impact of the play," as she tells us in a program note. Each character's entrance, for example, is heralded by a flurry of background music, which eventually takes on Symbolic Meaning. When the tenor saxophone which originally played for Tolen begins to announce Colin's arrival late in act two, it means that he's been transformed, I suppose. In the tiny Hotel Bostonian theatre, where no seat is more than twenty-five feet from the stage, the music is merely...
...sounded his usual note of ritualistic optimism, vowed that in seven years-no more and no less-Russia will overtake the U.S. economically. To Henry R. Roberts, president of Connecticut General Life, "he acted like a corporation president who "is in trouble with his board of directors and is trying to get out of his dilemma by making aggressive and boastful statements...
...interesting to note as a corollary to these arguments that an American commits a crime not by traveling to Cuba but by re-entering the United States after such a trip. To make a critizen's return to his own country a crime is to sanction banishment in violation of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments. It has always been recognized that a person has the right to reside in the country of which he is a citizen, and no court has ever declared the simple exercise of the rights of a citizen criminal. Yet the American who travels to Cuba...
...reassuring to note the other day the solidarity and unity of American labor. When over 25 New York workmen can witness a daylight robbery and fail to summon a policeman, even before they realize they can cut themselves in on the loot, it is indeed a heartening sign...