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Under the headline "Red Hue Seen in Peace Plea," another story in the series notes that "a spot check of (The House Committee on Un-American Activities) files showed numorous entries on the records of some of the more prominent signers of the petition...
...doubt children, old women, and the sentimental will cry. And in their interest, we would add a plea for mercy: let not the innocent suffer with the guilty. Pigeons are ugly, evil, and dirty, but sparrows and squirrels are not. Sparrows and squirrels are merely the dupes of pigeons. It is a well-known fact that pigeons use these amiable creatures as fronts, that food intended for the squirrels ends up in some pigeon's pockets. Therefore, in the interests of mercy, the signs on the Common should be changed to read...
...Harvard President Nathan Pusey told 1,500 students storming the locked gates* of his Harvard Yard home. Exercised by the university's sudden decision-after 325 years-to inscribe Harvard College diplomas in English instead of Latin, the Cambridge classicists were undeterred by Pusey's non-Horatian plea...
Professor Alfred joined Mrs. Mark DeWolfe Howe in replying that commercialism was the gravest threat. Concluding his plea for federal subsidy, Alfred predicted that theatrical standards would continue to decline, "until the theater is reopened to its audience...
...current magazines--not vice versa. He directs his criticism toward those writers in whom he finds a failure to develop a personal voice and, hence, "a surrender to certain fashionable themes, situations, or characters" or to "some commercially established standards of form and craft." He further notes that the plea in the greatest American fiction has been for an intensely personal view of reality, springing from "a lack of confidence in the solidity of social structures other than the one being created in the work...