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Britain's Angry Young Men fell to fisticuffs last week. Named from 27-year-old John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger, they are a group of young firebrands of exhibitionist bent who have been rattling London's literary teacup, with dozens of short-tempered novels, plays, films and reviews, all of which have said one thing loud and clear: they are fed to the teeth with the state of both the British Empire and British letters...
...Harvard CRIMSON was quick to answer and branded the whole affair as a "teacup war." Their main editorial stated that the majority of the student body wanted to continue the series and that the bad taste of a small minority was responsible for the whole affair. "Princeton and Harvard," it ended, "are too much a part of the best traditions of American education to allow themselves to linger in what is at best a petty feudalism...
This seemed to be a perfectly logical explanation and as the Princetonian was happy to accept this, the miniature crisis seemed to have come to a halt. But the teacup had not stopped boiling, it had just slowed to a simmer for a day. On Wednesday, the President of the Lampoon gave his answer to Princeton in particularly blunt terms...
Wars have been fought over women and land, but never over little pieces of china. But yesterday 36 students battled for a small painted teacup, the "Hackers...
...form was inspired by an attempt to express that great purpose." To capture the ideal in concrete and steel, Architect Stubbins designed a thin concrete shell roof slung between two bowed-out arches, set underneath as a stabilizer a multipurpose auditorium that by his own admission looked "like a teacup on stilts...