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...knows his life depends on what you say. I feel for the boys; they're scared. They want to go to Harvard. They're thinking. 'If Birge thinks I'm a jerk, I won't go there.' I don't take off for shyness--I look for a little spark of greatness, a spark of creativity...
...some Harvard men the sudden acquisition of responsibility--the responsibility to choose courses, to arrange his own finances, to keep his laundry clean, to discover friends, to choose a major, to decide what he will be for the rest of his life--is not the spark to academic action but to contemplation. Unless he is driven by a need to achieve (usually inspired by his parents), and unless he has the strength to persevere in his work while he follows his thoughts, he is likely to commit what will turn out to be academis suicide. (Of all colleges, Harvard grants...
...communal grain stores. The police-enforced compliant silence of the people is being broken, too. Bitter rhymes and slogans mocking the Communists are now quite often reported by refugees." Concluded Columnist Alsop: "The breakdown of discipline must mean that the conditions are beginning to exist in which a small spark can light a gigantic fire...
...year's end, said the Post in a quiet announcement, would go Kansas-born Ben Hibbs, 59, Post editor since 1942 when he was assigned to spark the first editorial revolution in modern Post history. Hibbs's successor: Executive Editor Robert Fuoss (rhymes with mousse), 48, the same young promotion and advertising-idea man who, nine years out of the University of Michigan, accompanied Hibbs to the top as Post managing editor. Though it is bigger than ever at 6,377,367 circulation, the magazine that Robert Fuoss will command is in serious financial trouble...
Tough Tenors: The Johnny Griffin and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis Quintet (Jazz-land). Two saxmen of the hard-bop persuasion trade heated solos like a couple of alternately firing spark plugs. Most successful combustions: Funky Fluke, a scrambling exercise in sheer speed, and the old favorite, Tickle...