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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will also use part of our Ford funds to hold the annual House dinner," Finley said. "Last year we had T.S. Eliot, and, although it's hard to beat that, we hope to do as well this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot Spends Ford Gift On New Luncheon Series | 10/11/1958 | See Source »

...foothills of the Berkshires, the campus is certainly inviting. The town supported by the college, South Hadley, is quaint, and largely inhabited by at least fourth generation New Englanders. Mount Holyoke is not plagued by friction between itself and the community; in fact, it allows the townspeople to use the library, swimming pool, and observatory. Said one local youngster about the college, "It keeps us in trouble"; and one middle-aged citizen commented, "The girls make lovely scenery; they're 1300 more good reasons to live in town...

Author: By Walter L. Goldfrank, | Title: Mt. Holyoke and the 'Uncommon Woman' | 10/9/1958 | See Source »

More significant, Rudolph concluded, will be the effects of this policy of constitutionalism on the Party itself. "Will the disciplined Communists maintain their control of the Party so as to use the democratic processes in their own interest," he asked, "or will the democratic process vitiate the Party's strength...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: Rudolph States Indian Reds' Aims | 10/9/1958 | See Source »

Although frequent use of capitals of express The Big Ideas is annoying and the prose often cumbersome, the primary fault of the book is its over-simplification. To present the character of Bogard, Frede resorts to a modern-day equivalent of good and bad angels. Bogard's thoughts are conveyed through two of his mental creations named Slide Rule and The Third Person. Calculation and commitment contend for the sould of the present generation...

Author: By Charles S. Maier, | Title: The 'Apathetic Generation' | 10/9/1958 | See Source »

...use of these two devices seems to indicate that the writer did not have the skill or the patience to develop his protagonist without artificially bisecting him into two idea-vehicles. Bogard loses depth and reality as a college student and becomes a clumsy allegorical figure in a twentieth-century morality play...

Author: By Charles S. Maier, | Title: The 'Apathetic Generation' | 10/9/1958 | See Source »

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