Word: towns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French society, Wylie is the author of Village in the Vaucluse, an analysis of life in a rural village in southern France. For this study Wylie and his wife lived for a year in the village. Wylie is now engaged in a similar study of a French industrial town...
From abnegation of responsibility it is but a small step to abnegation of moral standards. A Council treasurer absconds with the funds; athletes gang up on town youths and beat them up; a candidate for office buys votes from a neighboring school. With the former "representative" now interested only in himself (and athletes are a curiously unique kind of representative) and with no one to answer to but himself, many sorts of actions are possible...
Interspersed between the talks will be a scene from Wonderful Town, folk songs, a modern dance number, and several selections from the Freshman Chorus and the Choral Society...
Forty-two Yale students arrested in the March snowball riots were granted a reprieve Saturday by the City of New Haven, which postponed hearings until June 1. The move came ostensibly as the result of the city's desire to improve already shaky town-gown relations...
...defense fund" was subsequently raised to help sue the police if the town pressed charges against the students. Among those then planning to sue was Carnegie Teaching Fellow Frederic Hammond, who was arrested and manhandled on the steps of Battell Chapel when he emerged after playing the chapel organ. Several students have signed statements claiming that they were beaten while being taken to the station in squad cars...