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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...serves to symbolize the fraternity that exists between the tutorial staff and house members. Here, more than in other houses, the tutors can regularly be found joining in at bridge, going out for a snack or drink with a few boys, joking around at a small party, or most often, just sitting and discussing some subject of general interest in the common room...
...presented the avant-garde among Harvard composers, plus some songs by Anton Webern, a very good name nowadays. Most of the student music has been or will be played at concerts of the Composers Laboratory, and the opportunity for two hearings is valuable as this music is often difficult to grasp at a single hearing. The Pieces for Prepared Piano by Christian Wolff, for example, seemed much more comprehensible than at the first performance; nonetheless their resources will have to be expanded, as the music is too static. The Three Songs, also by Wolff, were an evocative use of Soprano...
...Broadmoor, or rather to Colorado Springs. The city itself is almost 7000 feet above sea level, and the oxygen content of the air is considerably lower than at sea level. This has no effect on CC teams as they are used to it, but eastern sextets have often found that they are far more tired in the third period than they had been throughout the season. This year Crimson Coach Cooney Weiland decided not to bring oxygen along on the trip as other eastern teams have done in the past...
...causes behind the government's constant frustration and failure to produce effective policy. Basically, the difficulty arises from the absence of any potential majority in the electorate which necessitates an artificial coalition majority in parliament. These coalitions, with their tenuous alliances and uneasy combinations, tend to be unstable. Dissention often arises within the coalition, each group adhering rigidly to its principles, unwilling to sacrifice its standards to the cause of effective government. Consequently, major problems are shelved for fear of upsetting the coalition's balance, and vital programs collect dust for lack of Cabinet cohesion...
...faults of the Third Republic. Their aim, unfortunately, has been unfulfilled. Potential Prime Ministers have resumed the practice of choosing a Cabinet before their election, and have asked for general debate on the ministers prior to the vote of the Prime Minister. This practice binds program with personality, and often guillotines potentially good policies...