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...start. Like a Freudian Madame Defarge, she knits in purposeful accompaniment to the sound of her own voice falling like a cleaver on her tremble-chinned daughter (Elizabeth Ross), who peeps in terror from a vine-enclosed summerhouse across the garden. Even marriage to a Saroyanesque young man (Logan Ramsey) fails to save the daughter, for she feverishly builds a homey womb away from home in a trellised corner booth of her husband's bar. The play's uncertain note of affirmation is sounded when Elizabeth finally flees to St. Louis with her husband, rejecting her mother...
...Ramsey made his statements in reply to visiting newsmen on the "Meet the Press" panel. Included on the panel was Lawrence Spivak, regular program member, who has also proposed a future debate between Wendell H. Furry, professor of Physics, and McCarthy...
...There are many points at which the Harvard Corporation disagrees with Professor Furry, both on his past actions and his present decisions," Ramsey said...
...Ramsey added that even though the Corporation has refused to fire Professor Furry he does not think it would hire him now. "At a great university," he said, "there is a tremendous distinction between what the standards are for hiring and the standards for firing. A man may indeed hold opinions and perform actions which the university considers deplorable and wrong. It will, nevertheless, maintain him. Yet, in general, a university will only hire a man whom they think at the time will make the greatest contribution to the university and to the country...
Personally, Ramsey told the panel newsmen, he did not think Furry should have claimed immunity, and added that he had spent much time arguing this point with Furry...