Word: recent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Recent Role: During a 1952 political crisis he reluctantly took office as acting President for three days, until
...recent gift of Procter and Gamble to Harvard is of special significance to the United States, to Harvard, and to that mammoth endeavor of our time, the Program for Harvard College. It represents the growing awareness of private industrial concerns that their own welfare--and the country's--can be best served by donating money to private universities to carry on their educational projects...
...excellent response to the recent Summer News poll of students' reasons for attending the Summer School has led the editors to prepare a second poll for and about students in the School...
...butler . . . has joined the Great Auk, Mah Jong and the snows of yesterday in limbo." Says he: "The change in conditions in English life has made it rather difficult for my kind of writing. Comedy does so depend on prosperity." Once a professional drama critic (for Vanity Fair), in recent years he has habitually left any play after the first act, no matter how good or bad. Rather sadly he recalls that England was once full of the dotty people he wrote about. "But I suppose a couple of wars have made the English more earnest. Yet there are still...
FLASHES IN THE NIGHT, edited by William Juhasz and Abraham Rothberg (87 pp.; Random House; $2.50), is a collection of seven short stories by Hungarian writers. Some of the authors took part in the recent revolt and wound up in jail. Some, not all, were Communist Party members, and some stood high in the esteem of their masters. Yet all are aware, in varying degrees, that they and their countrymen are living falsely because they are not living freely. Not all of these stories are good and no one of them is first rate, yet they are pathetically moving because...