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Massachusetts politics are not the cleanest in the country. So when a man whose pet project is stamping out gambling and corruption runs for office, he deserves special consideration. Through an unfortunate oversight, last Wednesday's editorial on the Cambridge City Council neglected to mention such a man, Andrew Trodden. Along with Marcus Morton, he is the brightest light among the non-incumbents in the field...
...cannot endorse Hyman Pill nor Andrew Trodden any more than we can endorse such non-CCA incumbents as Edward Sullivan, John Foley and John Lynch. Pill, while not disturbing anyone, has contributed very little to Cambridge civic improvement, while the CCA has never explained why Trodden, a man of no apparent qualifications, deserves backing from either the Association or from Cambridge...
...community. "And I grieve for him," writes Paton, "and the house he has made to fall with him, not as with Samson the house of his enemies, but the house of his own flesh and blood. And I grieve for the nation which gave him birth, that left the trodden and the known for the vast and secret continent, and made there songs of heim-wee and longing, and the iron laws...
...Harvard Dramatic Club left the well-trodden field of Othello with creditable success, marred only by the lead's unfortunate ineptness. Richard Heffron, in the title role, was more of a weight than a buoy to the show. Playing his early scenes in a sullen monotone, he gave no hint of a character that could erupt into uxoricide. Then, in his big scenes, he abandoned himself to steady roaring, without climaxes or the delicate shading that devides the complete amateur from the budding professional. As a result, Othello was without depth, a man of stock motions, trite passions...
...probable that everyone who sees Vittorio De Sica's will reach for some symbolic meaning, but I doubt there really is one. Miracle in Milan is a modern fairy tale, no more. The evil tycoons and down trodden mass are simplifications made for the sake of fantasy rather than ideology. Its hero, a poor, virtuous boy, could easily be Jack the Giant Killer or Aladdin with a magic lamp (though in this case it is a dove...