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...comedy written by Mr. Congreve is, to be sure, a play of tesserae: nostalgic, constant lovers and great, howling boobies follow each other across the stage with disconcerting briskness, like the well-oiled clockwork figures in the bell tower of some provincial Rathaus. But Mr. Chapman, to revert to the first clever and devastating simile, has fitted all the pieces together with skill and patience, and his Love for Love, consequently, has a coherence and a unity that Mr. Congreve's own play, in cold print, does...
...there remains a profitable way out of the entire muddle which does not seem so far to have been thoroughly considered. After allowing the decision made last Tuesday to revert to the status quo ante--replacing the October 30 deadline on a student's choice of Honors or C.L.G.S.--the Faculty ought to open up the Honors degree in another fashion. New legislation should grant to the departments the power to recommend for Honors a senior who chose to write a thesis but was unable to complete it for reasons implicit in the thesis material or otherwise outside a momentary...
...also set up a $400,000 trust fund for an 89-year old sister. After the sister dies, this money will revert to the University and from it the Corporation intends to create the second professorship...
...Spiegel case will not be resolved for many months, but so far Adenauer has behaved like an angry child caught with his hand in the cooky-jar. It is disturbing to see the leaders of a constitutional Western democracy revert to police methods to suppress criticism. Hopefully the German people will keep their government on the path of democracy which it has followed since...
...Thalidomide, if taken long and strong enough could revert man back to the amphibian stage...