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...Secretary of State broad power to withhold passports from "alleged subversives," to strengthen the already too stringent Smith Act, to extend the already too wide security program, to tighten immigration laws requiring the deportation of Communists (probably unconstitutional, and at least unjust, as they stand)--similarly represent dangerous incursions upon individual political liberty...
...Book of Proverbs (27:5) tells us, "Open rebuke is better than secret love," and this offers some comfort, however meagre, when one regards the ferocious and peevish attack of certain Deans upon the Class of 1961. Since, by the continual assertion of noted Deans and Officers at Registration, Harvard classes have been growing progressively more intelligent since about 1936, it is necessary to conclude that by 1961 the gap has doubtless become so great that Deans and others no longer have any real standards by which to judge more recent classes, and must confine themselves to their predictions...
Kentucky and other Southeastern Conference teams wind up their regular season play this weekend and the NCAA tournament representative from that league depends upon a decision by Mississippi State...
Pasternak insisted that he had given Anthony Brown of the London Daily Mail a batch of poems, all in longhand, to be delivered to a friend, Jacqueline de Proyart, curator of the Tolstoy Museum in Paris. Now he learned that Brown had taken it upon himself to publish in the Daily Mail a poem bearing the title Nobel Prize. The poem, said Pasternak, was written "in a black, pessimistic mood that has now passed." The very fact that Brown had plucked it out from all the others "shows what motivated the young man," the old man went on indignantly. Whether...
...Quixote the portrait of a Christian saint? W. H. Auden argues that it is, that Don Quixote sees his mission as "the World-that which needs my existence to save it at whatever cost to myself. He comes into collision with the real world but insists upon continuing to suffer [and] never despairs." When readers first meet Don Quixote, continues Auden, "he is (a) poor (b) not a knight, (c) 50, (d) has nothing to do except hunt and read romances about Knight-Errantry . . . Suddenly he goes mad, i.e., he sets out to become what he admires . . . Religiously...