Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...being a "compensation," and I suppose I don't mind being a "sort of Ivy League Dracula" [in the Oct. 19 review of Pillow Talk]. I can smell a compliment better than anyone I have ever met. No, all I really have to complain about is that I think you underrate Clark Gable [in the Oct. 12 review of But Not for Me]; he's really a deceptively good artist. That's all-but if overrating me goes with underrating him, then God praise the equation. TONY RANDALL
...collection of deep thinkers pondering truth in a cornfield last week near Palo Alto, Calif.? See EDUCATION, Time to Think...
...whose scruples stand in the way; this is not an easy issue to resolve, but in my judgment, Harvard would be remiss in its specific educational function to all its students if its actions as well as its curriculum didn't speak for freedom--and of course students who think otherwise needn't come to Harvard, and are free to go elsewhere to colleges that interpret their responsibilities to education differently...
...question as to when to make a stand is often not easy: I am reminded of the man in Nazi Germany who went to a psychiatrist because his right arm was paralyzed--his arm wouldn't let him give the Nazi salute that the situation demanded of him. I think the disclaimer affidavit is an important symbol for (like Dean John Monro and many others) I don't want to see students made even more cautious by such reminders of potential danger in political involvement; and I believe such an involvement to be one of the essential qualities of education...
...discussions about rejoining NSA have shown, it is not every day that students have the opportunity to take part in an issue that is at once educationally and politically relevant. I think this one is. David Riesman '31, Henry Ford professor of Social Sciences...