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...finest male performance in this production is Jack Bittner's Tybalt. He plays Capulet's war-mongering nephew with brio and brimstone. Though physically very short of stature, Bittner is, by the time he is slain, fully one foot taller. Incidentally, all the swordplay in the production is splendid; arranged by Raymond Saint-Jacques, it is a far cry from the usual mamby-pamby skirmishing...
...realizes that in advancing his worldly status, he has neglected his spiritual state. For a moment there, it looks as if the picture is going to make an honest if not very original point. But before anybody can say Fish House Punch, the script gives the hero a splendid opportunity to save his soul without losing any money...
...least, on the part of those who run Harvard. I do not want to see Harvard continue to be the unwitting tool of the sinster influences that are now so powerful in this Country--influences responsible for the strange courses and action taken by many hitherto splendid institutions...
...Your splendid article on the problems of the commuting student does not mention what seems to me to be an important distinction which is made at Harvard between commuting and resident students. The resident arrives at Harvard for a freshman year centered in the Yard and at the Union. In the former he sleeps, studies, attends classes and bull sessions; in the latter, he eats and finds many of his social contacts: The friendships which he makes in both places are those which tend to determine the pattern of his upperclass years. The commuter, on the other hand...
...above the fact that Morse's ugly words had smeared her. she noted that Morse is chairman of the subcommittee on Latin American affairs, and that in the embassy she could expect no support from the chairman. It seems she has set the Senator from Oregon a splendid example. He should resign as chairman of the subcommittee...