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ABOUT one fourth of the students in the Summer School are Harvard or Radcliffe students, and there are several hundred more winter residents who stay around for the summer but do not attend the Summer School. Most of these tend to stick with one another, and generally are not found in the center of the Summer School social maelstrom, the Yard...
There is a kind of tension every summer, an unofficial segregation of the "summies" from the Harvard and Radcliffe students. It is in part snobbism, and in part due to the fact that Harvard and Radcliffe students live off-campus during the summer, while others tend to live in Summer School housing...
AMERICANS, enthralled by the personality of their chief executive and the power of his office, tend to talk about their political history in terms of presidential administrations. Yet last week, when it was learned that Earl Warren, the 14th Chief Justice of the United States, would soon retire from the Supreme Court, it was clear that another branch of government can define a historic period just as sharply-if not more so. For the past 15 years, the extraordinary "Warren court," spanning all but a few months of the terms of three Presidents, has had no less an impact...
...yardsticks used outside the trade, soul's arrival is even more significant. Since its tortuous evolution is so intertwined with Negro history and so expressive of Negro culture, Negroes naturally tend to value it as a sort of badge of black identity. "The abiding moods expressed in our most vital popular art form are not simply a matter of entertainment," says Negro Novelist Ralph Ellison. "They also tell us who and where...
Real Society women tend to be tweedy-leathery, observes Birmingham -the leathery part being the texture of their perpetually tanned skin. "Hair is a blond mixture, streaked from the sun, of middle length, and is often caught at the back of the neck in a little net bag." Despite such allure, a man of Real Society may become jaded, and if this occurs, says the author, he may be permitted to keep a mistress. Here is a true class distinction: the lives of the lofty are spacious enough for mistresses, but the lower orders have only adultery...