Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Personal Status. As Premier of the new "government," Ferhat Abbas represents a more moderate choice than might have been expected. A placid ex-pharmacist who speaks much better French than Arabic ("I cannot read Arabic, and I speak it like a country bumpkin"), Abbas was long the recognized leader of the pro-French Moslems, has worked most of his life to bring France and Moslem Algerians into a decent, humane relationship. Though he was twice jailed by the French and called a salaud (dirty bum) by a right-wing Deputy when he was a member of the French Constituent Assembly...
...Derek T. Winans '60, Chairman of the Harvard Freedom Council, that his speech in support of N.S.A. be placed on the agenda for next Monday's meeting of the Student Council. Winans said yesterday that he still plans to attend the meeting and hopes to be allowed to speak. He added that a member of the Council who voted with the majority to withdraw from N.S.A. would probably ask that Winans' views be heard...
...Council's case against the N.S.A. may be a valid one; to date, however, the current Council has shown no willingness to hear an adequate presentation of both sides of the issue. Until such a discussion is held and all of N.S.A.'s defenders are given a chance to speak, Harvard's status in N.S.A. should not be considered finally settled, despite the Student Council Executive Committee's statement to the contrary...
Marc E. Leland '59, President of the Student Council, indicated that he might be willing to give Winans an opportunity to speak at a later meeting, but that the Council had "too many things to do" at this time. The Executive Committee considered N.S.A. a "settled issue," he said, and as such "it deserves no place on our agenda...
...night before, four other Fugitives and two guests poets read from their poetry and patted each other on the back. After a while, the latter activity exceeded the former, and when the group played a recording of the late Merrill Moore reading "Death is the only language death can speak," along with several other poems on the same subject, some in the audience found the idea of the fugitive reunion beginning to cloy...