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...recent American number of the left-wing British journal New Statesman, containing essays by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., and Prof. H. Stuart Hughes among others, provokes some observations about the current state of Left politics in America...
...second section of the new Mosaic is devoted to a number of tributes to the famous scholar, Prof. Harry Austryn Wolfson, on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday. They include a biographical sketch by Richard B. Stone, a review of Prof. Wolfson's scholarly work by a student, Prof. Isadore Twersky, and seven short pieces by faculty friends...
...Prof. Twersky's piece clearly shows, in its incisive and gently ironic style, the influences of Prof. Wolfson himself. Stone's piece is often awkward, and far too serious for what could have been a delightful account of Wolfson's eccentric life and habits. And as all academic biographies do, he includes the inevitable description of the scholar's office, littered high with papers and books, in which the genius can find a 20-year-old magazine within seconds...
...when the disoriented radicals decided that they could accomplish more in the precincts than on the picket lines. In his view, student politics came of age intellectually and politically when the peace marchers gave up "waving signs and singing songs" in favor of "stuffing envelopes and pushing doorbells for Prof. Hughes (and) Rep. William Fitts Ryan...." I do not dispute Mr. Roberts' assertion that this transformation is a sign that maturity has come to a particular segment of student politics: namely that composed of the militants of the "peace movement." What I do dispute is his implicit identification of this...
...same time, Greene noted that the number of the Committee members personally favor Prof. H. Stuart Hughes, Independent candidate in the Senatorial race. However, all but "one or two" do not think the Young Democrats, as an organization, should back Hughes in November, Greene said. Many committee members will be working for the college division of Democrats for Hughes, he added...