Word: sociale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ominous Specific. From Moscow came the most remarkable reaction of all. For more than 24 hours after President Truman's announcement, the Russians maintained silence. Then Tass released a deadpan communiqué deploring the "alarm among broad social circles" which the Washington news had caused. Tass suggested that the West had, just possibly, been fooled. "In the Soviet Union . . . building work on a large scale is in progress-hydroelectric stations, mines, canals, roads-which evokes the necessity of large-scale blasting . . . It is possible that this might draw attention beyond the confines of the Soviet Union." As for atomic...
...directing his writers, writing his directors, casting his actors, cutting and editing film, reviewing musical scores, sets and costumes, compromising the clashes between the commercial mind and the artistic temperament. Most of his spare time, with his wife and two children, is uncluttered by Hollywood's social excesses or such private indulgences as drinking and smoking. He spends it in a tireless hunt for story material in 70-odd publications a month, plus novels, plays and synopses...
Biggest of the committees, the Social Service Committee, will be seeking to improve its work in 43 local settlement houses and boys' clubs. Activities there range from basketball, wrestling, and carpentry to debating, dramatics, and science. Co-chairmen John c. Pittenger '51 and Jed Dreifus '50 hope to supply the settlement houses with well over 200 men this year...
...Special events" highlights will come when the Social Service Committee, through the cooperation of the Harvard Athletic Association, escorts some of its settlement house boys to the football varsity's games with Cornell, Brown, and Holy Cross...
President N. Conant Webb '49 is planning most of last year's PBH activities for expanded repeat performances this year, plus several new activities. Top spots in PBH's program will go to "social service," as expressed in boys' group work in Boston's many settlement houses, and to tutoring...