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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the new High Dam at Aswam, Egypt, is finished in about eight years, it will create one of the largest artificial lakes in the world--over 200 miles long. Lost beneath the waters will be the whole of pre-historic Nubia, according to Brew. Archaeological remains from paleolithic Nubria, pre-dynastic and dynastic Egypt, and Greco-Roman culture are in the threatened area...
...occasion for Deutscher's visit illustrates the center's important position in its field. Deutscher came to the United States to study certain Soviet archival documents available only at Widener. The "richness of Widener's collection," according to Shulman, is one of the keys to the Center's pre-eminence...
...important second step in the "opening up," Fainsod feels, is the exchange of pre-Ph.D. graduate students for entire academic years, a program which started last year with half-a dozen Harvard people participating. These students had some opportunities to interview Soviet personnel and could study in the libraries (though not in the governmental archives). This problem of access has yet to be resolved. American scholars now can read the Soviet equivalent of doctoral dissertations, and negotiations for further access and further exchange agreements will take place soon. According to Fainsod, a very important third step in the exchange...
...hoist a young man, Horst Buchholz. Playing the title role, this European film actor manages-not wholly through ability but through his matinee-idol appearance-to be the most effective part of a generally empty show. He plays the overindulged, sexually precocious, humanly immature son of a pre-World War I grande cocotte, who has brought him up to make a rich marriage...
Gradually the prison assumes the aspect of the world-a world in conspiracy to mock the prisoner's hopes and humble his humanity. The prison director's daughter, a kind of pre-Lolita of coquettish innocence, promises to lead him to freedom but never does; the jailers themselves stage an elaborate comedy only to laugh at his false hopes for escape. His past life emerges as a base and saddening farce-his bastard birth, his sluttish wife, his crippled, oafish children who are not really his. And always there is the maddening Alice-in-Wonderland logic by which...