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...survive all references to "chance" or "brink" or "art." Praising Dulles, Nixon said: "The test of a foreign policy is its ability to keep the peace without surrendering any territory or any principle. And that great fact about the Eisenhower-Dulles foreign policy will stand out long after the tempest in a teapot over the expression [brink of war] is forgotten...
...taught me language," says Caliban to Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest, "and my profit on't is, I know how to curse." Between Caliban's curses and nonstop Ariel flights of the liberal imagination, most writing on the Negro problem in America makes highly unprofitable reading, in the view of talented Negro Novelist James (Go Tell It on the Mountain) Baldwin. This sheaf of personal essays, written with bitter clarity and uncommon grace, is an effort to retrieve the Negro from the abstractions of the do-gooders and the no-goods...
...recent formation of a House Debate League is a sign that some students see the need for more House activities. And although the Eliot House drama group drew on some outside support, it proved that House sponsorship of dramatics can produce a tempest with talent. These are encouraging signs, but many more such activities are needed. House newspapers, choruses, and chamber music groups may need little more than a suggestion and an organizer to develop the real talent now existing, silently, in each House...
...lurking doubts about the feasibility of a new theatrical group were pleasantly and vigorously demolished by the Eliot Drama Group last night. For although the new organization's production of The Tempest often lacked the desirable finish, it easily compensated for this by its overall imaginativeness and a number of highly creditable individual performances...
...Tempest is a play of delicate gradations in feeling and expression; ideally performed it can have a sublimity of balance Shared by few other dramatic works. For this reason it is a tempting challenge to any theatrical group, and for this reason to ask that the play be fully exploited is to ask a performance of unusual brilliance. It is in no sense to the discredit of The Eliot Drama Group that they have been unable to provide this. What they have done is combine talent and gusto in all aspects of a production, which--though it falls short...