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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pointed out, the Russians might probably foment internal disorder and then seize desired cities to foil "fascist plots." Hitler's precedent with the Sudeten Germans forms an instructive precedent which shows how effective this tactic can be. Could weakened NATO forces contest successive nibbles and would we dare to use massive retaliation against a small Russian move? In any case, a buffer zone plan seems to provide little more stability than exists at present. Demilitarizing Central Europe might very well leave us with the awesome decisions that the Russians now face in deciding any political or military move against...

Author: By Charles S. Maier, | Title: Berlin Again | 11/19/1958 | See Source »

Perkins remarked that he "would hate to be Master of a House with a group of second-class tutors, who were asked to use House offices, but not to participate in the decisions of the Senior Common Room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fair, Perkins Oppose House Tutor Increase | 11/19/1958 | See Source »

...expect tutors to use House facilities for their tutorial meetings unless they are associated with the House," Robert G. McCloskey, Chairman of the Government Department pointed out. Feeling that "an integration of tutorial and House activities is a good idea," he advocated "extending the privileges of the Senior Common Room to an increased number of tutors on a non-resident basis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Taylor, Gilmore Suggest More Tutorial in Houses | 11/18/1958 | See Source »

...preserving pristine Hemingwaysque to show any significant amount of cinematic imagination. The movie retains an excessive amount of the author's descriptive narrative, and at several points invites you to react as you would to a guided tour or a slide lecture. It also exaggerates Hemingway's literary use of African lioncubs in the old man's dreams, and confuses his visions of Africa with fishing flashbacks and highly ambiguous scenic shots. They may just as well have been filmed on a Cuban beach as in Africa, and the lions seem so visually irrelevent that including them in several crucial...

Author: By Alan H. Grossman, | Title: The Old Man and the Sea | 11/18/1958 | See Source »

Occasionally he drops a card to his enlighteners in Cambridge. (The stamps change color, but the message remains the same.) Harvard life is otherwise very much as before. His old roommates use the percolator now, his friends have divided the records, and if interested you can find the Charles Addams on Lamont's fifth floor, forever Falstaff's favorite on campus spot...

Author: By John B. Radner, | Title: Togetherness | 11/18/1958 | See Source »

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