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With a great number of younger Mississippians, a number that would frighten our embittered elders, I deplore the prejudice and ugliness of Mississippi politics as displayed in the recent primary elections. When we who love our state have a more powerful voice, we will be an effective instrument for lifting Mississippi from the mire of such as this...
Hostility to the Jewish scholar has receded in recent years, Harry Wolfson noted. "If a Jew writes a good book, he can get it published as easily as a non-Jew. I don't believe that there is an analogy between scholarship and social and economic life," he stated. Jewish scholarship has been characterized in modern times by the broad way it deals with its subject, Wolfson said. In nineteenth century scholarship Jews had the most liberal and most universal approach; no Jewish philosopher or student of philosophy ever dealt with his subject1
...first season the Metropolitan District Commission ceded the use of the new Theatre to the Cambridge Drama Festival, which offered three productions over a period of nine and a half weeks. As it turned out--and quite accidentally--all three were by Shakespeare. Fortunately, Jacques Barzun's recent statement, "I agree with that small but articulate group of people who would rather not see Shakespeare acted"--shocking for a man of his staggering brilliance and perception--fell on deaf ears...
...Just Wild About Harry," and "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone." The Playhouse is closing its summer schedule currently with a production of Louis Peterson's Take a Giant Step, a sensitive treatment of Negro adolescence that has enjoyed two New York productions in recent years...
...addition, over half favor "right-to-work" laws. Probably influenced by revelations of union corruption, and the huge amount of anti-union propaganda distributed in the recent Congressional campaign, a significant group of "moderate liberals" have apparently joined the "conservatives" in their sympathy for this bit of legislation...