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...novel in Cuba. William Faulkner lay fallow, having produced from the rich river bottom of his imagination enough circumstantial fantasies to keep students of the novel and the South in a daze for years. John Steinbeck's The Wayward Bus displayed his sensory gifts and grasp of underdog U.S. types, but these qualities failed to counterbalance a cheap plot. In The Pearl, published in book form at year's end, Steinbeck reworked an old Mexican folk tale with over-deliberate folksiness. Lion Feuchtwanger's novel of 18th Century France had all the solidity and splendor...
...mother (who died when he was four) that her children should be "undogmatic and unsectarian Christians, charitable to all churches and sects." He came of a long line of British squires who, from the time of Willmus Cripps in the 12th Century, had been known as champions of the underdog. Stafford's aunt, Beatrice Webb (a sister of Cripps's mother), helped turn the youthful instinct for social justice toward formal socialism. Cripps was born in 1889, the year Uncle Sidney and Aunt Beatrice published the famous Fabian Essays in Socialism...
When the undergraduate scrambles in the outside world of people competing for real spoils the reward of extracurricular time spent in settlement houses can hardly lie in sentimental memories. The enduring value will consist in that measure of social perspective--of understanding the underdog--that must accompany intellectual preparations for democratic living. It is during College, declares James Ford '05, former associate professor of Sociology, that "broad human contacts" must enter a man's development. "Postponement until graduation," he wrote in 1940, "is unsafe, for sympathy so long held in check may become atrophied. A man's character...
...leaflets bearing a cocky ultimatum: "Your unfeeling leaders have ordered your young men into combat with the irresistible forces of Columbia. Your leaders . . . promise victories. You know what you get. There is still time for you to retire with honor. Surrender. . . . You will be treated humanely." Two days later, Underdog Yale countered with a more orthodox aerial attack (17 completed passes...
With pre-game raids and rallies raising student spirits to fever pitch, an underdog Boston University squad will pose the first crucial test of the season for the Crimson eleven at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon in Harvard Stadium. In the three previous clashes between the two universities, Harvard has never been defeated, or even had its goal-line crossed. The Crimson downed the Terriers 10 to 0 in 1921, 13 to 0 in 1924, and 60 to 0 in a 1945 war-time encounter...