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Several factors produce this situation--a more hostile and tense situation than exists in Cambridge. Foremost is the sharply contrasting racial makeup of the University and the city, which has given rise to countless "incidents." New Haven is 40 percent Italian, 25 percent Irish, and ten percent Anglo-Saxon. At Yale, the proportion is almost exactly reversed...
Stevenson has defended his testimony by saying that it would be "a sad day for Anglo-Saxon justice when any man, especially a lawyer, will refuse to give honest evidence in criminal trial for fear the defendant may eventually be found guilty." Last week 22 lawyers, some of them Republicans and Eisenhower supporters, came to his defense. So did the pro-Eisenhower New York Times. Said the lawyers: "The governor . . . did what any good citizen should have done . . ." The Democrats pointed out that Republican John Foster Dulles had endorsed Hiss for the presidency of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace...
Edgar F. Shannon, assistant professor of English and former Rhodes Scholar, told a Lamont Forum Room audience last night that the Rhodes awards are a means of fostering the Anglo-Saxon world community...
...lushness and artifice> Spanish precision and plainness have come through. Detail, passivity, indifference, a stoical acceptance of life, patience, an ironical resignation to the peculiar ways of human beings are its Spanish traits. Santayana's psychological powers are hardly less illuminating in his long essays on the Anglo-Saxon and the American characters; he had already lit up the follies of the German mind in his work on Egotism in German Philosophy, a work much consulted during the war against Hitler...
...Guilbert (George Sanders) in a savage battle with hand ax and mace & chain to the neighing of horses and the funereal beating of drums; the flaming assault on Torquilstone castle, where Rowena (Joan Fontaine) is held captive by the sneering Sir Hugh de Bracy (Robert Douglas), with thousands of Saxon archers hurling themselves across the moat and swarming up the granite-grey walls while the Normans shower boulders down on them from the battlements...