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...will readily see, the article has a salient weakness. It implies a change in himself, rather than in the type of student who is arbitrarily admitted by the University. The authors have chosen to regard the student body as static, and the presence of Dorchester men in Phi Beta Kappa as a token of what Marx hath wrought...
...feet he and his navigator, husky, thin-haired Major Mikhail Gordienko, were using oxygen. Doggedly Hero Kokkinaki held his red ship, the Moskva, on its course. Near sundown, with no sight of sky or sea, his radio was frying with static like a pan of pork chops. Hopelessly lost, he turned Moskva back on its course. Finally with little more than two hours' fuel in the tanks, with oxygen running low, he fainted. Gordienko took over...
Most controversial of last night's speeches was that of Eric Johnson '40 who represented Nicolai Lenin. Centering on whether Lenin would have supported a democratic alliance against the fascist states, the discussion ranged to debate over the nature of the perfect communistic state and its static quality...
...assertion, slowness and difficulty with his medium they freely concede. But Cezanne's knowledge of painting and the profound calculation and power of his real triumphs they fully establish. Not only the effect of these paintings, which other critics have expressed not quite so well: "Fundamentally they are static, not inert or dead, but active as a tower, a pier or a buttress is active. . . . Composed not only in the usual sense of having their parts disposed in an orderly arrangement, but in the sense in which we speak of a person's 'composure.' . . ." But also...
...permanent fine arts professors are entrusted with the final decision as to who shall teach under them. Thus they are able to choose their own successors, perpetuate their own ideas, prevent any change, and eliminate unwanted personalities. So long as they remain in control, the department will be static--as it was at its founding...