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These 13 groups represent more diversity than activity. In the large, partisan groups, the grasp for personal power and prestige often exceeds the grasp of real political issues. Concern for intra-organizational structure can be carried to extremes, and it is unfortunate that self-conscious phrases like "bureaucratic hierarchy" and "public image" are so indispensible to these clubs...
...withering soon after. And of course, our Presidential elections provide a period crisis for campus politicos. When there is a red-white-and-blue button to wear, a sticker to put in the windows, a speech to hear, a leaflet to hand out, then students flock to the clubs. Often, new groups are formed. Dean Watson fully expects a Students for Nixon, for Kennedy, and for whoever else strikes the student fancy, to appear in the next year...
...alas, has no poet laureate, no clarion voice to rise above the Commerce Chamber cackle. Hugh MacLennan, a witty essayist and novelist who picks up bread-money teaching at Montreal's McGill University, comes closest to doing the job. Although his interest is confined to only a small and often uninteresting segment of the varied populace, he understands it and explains it very well indeed...
...from which they never really recovered. At war's end, demobilization in Europe brought a huge influx of refugees--not merely the weary Britons looking for a second chance, but also a dynamic hoard of bright-eyed central and east Europeans. The newcomers, adaptable and eager to make good, often had technical skills and or artistic talents...
Munch's exclusion of several soprano and alto parts, however, seemed not such a bad idea, since Saramae Endich and Florence Kopleff turned out to be not in the same league as Adele Addison and Martha Lipton, who often appear with the B.S.O. The other soloists, however, performed excellently. As the Evangelist, Hughes Cuenod stood out, his lyric tenor voice reaching every corner of Symphony Hall, although he began to tire in part two. Mack Harrell sang Jesus with great expressiveness; the most tender moment of the whole afternoon as it should have been, was his "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani...