Word: second
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from off-Broadway, is powerfully effected. The full plight of a doctor who discovers the town's health baths to be polluted, is relentlessly revealed in successive episodes from the time his brother, the mayor, first suggests that he is a "traitor to society." At the end of the second act a tremendous and truly exciting feeling of futility engulfs the viewer as the doctor attempts to explain the danger and his own remedial plan to a mass meeting where his audience is stacked against him. Agitators, who sit among the theatre audience, usurp control of the doctor's meeting...
...field which the Center covers, properly speaking, is immense: the staff tries simply to center local activity, and not to co-ordinate it under any general plan. The most recent seminar was led Monday by Isaac Deutscher on The Historian and the Russian Revolution. Almost 50 people--from second year graduate students to senior faculty members--crowded into a seminar room at 16 Dunster Street built for 20. The occasion for Deutscher's visit illustrates the center's important position in its field. Deutscher came to the United States to study certain Soviet archival documents available only at Widener...
...greater flow of materials" from the Soviet Union to the West, Fainsod says. But very often, however, the key documents come through fortuitous accidents, like the Smolensk archives Fainsod used for his Smolensk under Soviet Rule. These documents were captured intact by Nazi forces invading the U.S.S.R. during the Second World...
...important second step in the "opening up," Fainsod feels, is the exchange of pre-Ph.D. graduate students for entire academic years, a program which started last year with half-a dozen Harvard people participating. These students had some opportunities to interview Soviet personnel and could study in the libraries (though not in the governmental archives). This problem of access has yet to be resolved. American scholars now can read the Soviet equivalent of doctoral dissertations, and negotiations for further access and further exchange agreements will take place soon. According to Fainsod, a very important third step in the exchange...
...Second, students have claimed that NSA resolutions have been passed in farcical travesties of parliamentary procedure. NSA, though, has now nullified many of these objections through procedural reforms: Fewer resolutions are presented; they are discussed thoroughly in workshop committees, and qualified opinion from outside experts is solicited. Furthermore, NSA is strengthening general student consciousness of issues; a "Project Awareness" program for presenting issues on campuses will encourage the representation at the congresses of a more informed student opinion...