Word: statements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with great interest that I read the editorial on Cyprus that appeared in your December 4 issue. I feel that it was highly successful in capturing the main problems involved, and in showing why a solution is not going to be reached easily. There is one statement, however, which is definitely out of place in this well informed article, and that is the assertion that "it would be difficult to find any real progress achieved" in the last five years...
...letter to the CRIMSON, Professor Karl Sax is quite justified in condemning restriction of information about birth control and of birth control propaganda. However, the statement in the CRIMSON'S article of December 2, that Widener is guilty of such restriction, was in error. I am currently engaged in research for an honors thesis on the subject of the Massachusetts birth control law. I have found that information about birth control, and birth control propaganda, are readily available in Widener, and are listed in the card catalogue. In all likelihood it is only instructional manuals and descriptions of method that...
...necessitates a meeting-ground. Someplace, literature must be taught as history and vice versa. There is some consensus as to when this is valid--as, for example, that the art of a Shakespeare can be studied as craftsmanship whereas it is more profitable to approach Herman Wouk as a statement of group adjustment; but the dividing line never really becomes clear...
...Zhivago has a strong sense of his destiny. The massed characters and episodes help to give the book panoramic scope. And the torrents of talk on art, religion, and life usually flow with incisive force, in what one critic calls Western Europe's "great tradition of full statement"-a tradition that has nearly disappeared in the West's contemporary fragmented, endlessly detailed and programed writing...
...full Lampoon board met last Friday and signed a statement asserting the collective responsibility of all members. Fools' Week was unanimously abolished, and with it all costumes, entertainments and organizational activities outside the building...