Word: usual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usual in Forum meetings, tonight's discussion is calculated to bring out diametrically opposed viewpoints among the speakers. Ciardi, who was an active campaigner for the Progressive Party in last year's elections, is a vigorous exponent of complete academic freedom and is opposed to any system that would require political qualification for teachers or professors. Sullivan asserts the opposite principle that the state is justified in excluding know Communists from teaching in its schools. Brameld and Muchnick are expected to take stands somewhere between the order two speakers...
...current offering from Bow Street is just about the same as its recent predecessors. It contains twelve cartoons, drawings and pictures, of which two or three are mildly funny. Instead of the usual feature of the freshman issue, an annotated street map of Cambridge, the center spread is a scrawled but reasonably accurate picture of Scollay Square. The poetry and prose departments are lukewarm at best-the best being a nicely illustrated but overlong discussion of the Social Register by one Rex Pose. Perhaps the funniest part of this issue is the absence of all titles behind the names...
...Quartet," an English expert like the author, dramatizes four of his neat but contrived short stories which enjoy this virtue of carrying the audience along at a satisfying pace. Of course the usual Maugham vices are sometimes present...
Happily, Mr. Evans' operatic tendencies were not in evidence (except in the second play where they were quite in order), and he performed subtlely and sensitively, with his usual technical excellence. His wife, an equally complex but less developed character, was portrayed with understanding by Edna Best. A competent cast supported the stars in both plays...
...general direction of the HAA for it presents an inviting target, but as far as this writer is concerned, the HAA cannot be hold responsible. Two weeks ago the Columbia authorities asked ticket manager Lunden how many tickets he wanted. They suggested Harvard would need only 8000, or the usual number given the opposing team at an early season Columbia home game...