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...productions during 1959-60, seven were works written by students--a number exceeded in four other post-War years. Two of these were musical: Run for the Money, the annual all-male-acted musical comedy put on by the Hasty Pudding, which was a middling work with expert performances by David L. Rawle '62, and David R. Pursley '60; and a sprightly revue with book, lyrics and music by a second-year graduate student, Erich Segal '58, which was staged in the Pi Eta Theatre...
Naturally, the bulk of last year's productions were not authored by students. Of the 47 productions in this category, 11 were musical and 36 were play. These raised the post-war totals to 71 musical works and 277 plays...
Hence there is reason for surprise at the present fervor of Harvard undergraduates. At no time since the Thirties, and certainly not since the collapse of post-war idealism in 1948, has such a wave a political activism swept Cambridge. The sudden appearance, within a few months, of the single issue clubs—LCIC, SANE, 1001(f), and the Capital Punishment Committee—is tending to make obsolete the charge of “student apathy...
...serious was all this press criticism against Kishi in his homeland? One of democracy's odd manifestations in post-war Japan is the way all newspapers, including the conservative sheets, are compulsively antigovernment, perhaps as a reaction to the slavish and subservient newspapers of the war years (explains one Japanese newspaperman seriously: "To do otherwise would be to act feudally...
Author of the post-war policy of "containment," Kennan more recently advanced proposals for a "disengagement" on the continent. Since 1950 he has taught at the Institute for Advanced Study, except for his Ambassadorship...