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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...difficult to see what colleges the Report is talking about. According to Shannon McCune, "we don't want more than the usual quota of screwballs." But New College is not planned as a roost for "greasy grinds" either. Its students, according to McCune, should be "young men and women of imagination and curiosity--in many fields...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: Attack on Academic Rigidity Calls for 'Major Departure' | 2/20/1959 | See Source »

...usual Arthur Freeman has written the nicest things in the issue. Two little poems "Atthis" and "A Pigeon Killed on Beacon Street" move quickly with their short lines and light rhythm; and a delightful irony masks satire in one and resignation in the other. Piero Heliczer's two poems are more lyrical. In P, his lack of punctuation, paucity of long syllables, and predominance of soft consonant sounds combine to produce an attractive whispering quality...

Author: By Peter E. Quint, | Title: Identity | 2/20/1959 | See Source »

...varsity quintet will have to overcome its usual letdown against non-League opponents when it faces a pretty good Brandeis team tonight at 8:15 p.m. in Waltham. Under the youngest coach in the country, 23-year-old Rudy Finderson, the Judges have amassed a 7-7 record and will be looking to go above the .500 mark...

Author: By Walter L. Goldfrank, | Title: Crimson Five to Meet Brandeis In Non-League Game at Waltham | 2/17/1959 | See Source »

...questioning, Satrústegui emerged exultant. "The government is now weak," he said. "It cannot arrest me without doing great harm to itself." Satrústegui's remarks strongly suggested that the regime of Spain's 66-year-old Caudillo (leader) was in trouble-more trouble than usual. To some degree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: The Stir of Discontent | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

...Perfect Furlough. The usual soldier farce, but Director Blake Edwards has turned it out with professional polish. Good conduct medal: Tony Curtis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Time Listings, Feb. 16, 1959 | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

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