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...ideas of the citizens who feel that they have a significant role to play in the education of their own children. This is being done--though far too infrequently--by the means of these reports, and by the appointing of citizens' committees, groups of adults in the community who possess a special interest or knowledge in a problem to be tackled by the school system, whether it be construction of a new building or preparing of a new course of study...
...full-bodied Russian girls were ingenuously sensuous without being sensual. The men-possibly the most masculine male dancers ever to kick a leg in Manhattan-performed their muscle-twisting feats witha pure animal joy of movement rarely seen on the stage. Wrote Critic Harold Clurman: "The qualities these dancers possess are those we [Americans] like to claim as our own when we feel ourselves to be at our best...
...bitterness of boys who have been hurt by being kept out. Thus, in explaining the aims of the Society to new members at the first initiation, the president referred to Porcellian as "well suited to receive diminutive swine, but not that portion of the human race who think they possess a soul"; Pi Eta lacked "even a standard of admission, much less one of conduct." But the harshest words of censure were reserved for the arch-enemy...
...Brien Nicholas '59, performed an aria in Bach's Cantata No. 41 with a freshness and grace which excelled even her own past performances. The other soloists, Thomas Beveridge '59, Ruth Oeste '58, and Karl Dan Sorensen, also possess very fine voices. The only villains of the evening were the trumpets, particularly the second, who came near to turning the Bach into a shambles...
...appears that the real issue of the Kohler strike in Sheboygan, Wis. [March 17] is finally coming to light. Does a man still possess the right to manage his own business, or must he and his management become hog-tied in the pull of the myriad strings that encumber thousands of businesses today and terminate in the executive offices of the labor trust? Unions are wielding much more power today than they should be wielding...