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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sounds familiar--the "non-political" rallies, the unified core of 40 percent against a divided opposition and an apathetic majority the shrieks about a red menace, and finally the complacent satisfaction in America at the sight of Communism foiled. The whole thing has the horrible aspect of a once van quished vampire coming to life again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brass Tacks | 10/23/1947 | See Source »

With in the short range of 200 yards, University forum goers will have a three-way choice of speakers tonight. Herbert V. Evatt, Harry T. Levin '33, and Mark Van Doren will appear almost simultaneously in different parts of the vicinity of the Yard before varied audiences...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University to Hear Speeches Of Evatt, Levin, Van Doren | 10/23/1947 | See Source »

...still a third corner of the Yard, Mark Van Doren will address the Harvard, World Federalists and interested outsiders in Emerson D at 8:30 o'clock. Van Doren, professor of English at Columbia, will speak on "A Liberal Looks at World Government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University to Hear Speeches Of Evatt, Levin, Van Doren | 10/23/1947 | See Source »

...Mark Van Doren, critic, poet, and college professor, will speak on "A Liberal Looks at World Government" Thursday evening at 8:30 o'clock in Emerson D. Van Doren will speak under the sponsorship of the Harvard World Federalist group...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: World Federalists Offer Van Doren Here on Thursday | 10/18/1947 | See Source »

Next morning, the Scheveningen concert was the talk of The Netherlands. Indignant Dutch critics accused Conductor Ignaz Neumark and his 86 state-paid musicians of "lack of discipline and inadequate rehearsing." But nothing had gone awry with the orchestra, only with the soloists. Dutch journalist Henri van Eysden had an explanation. The astonishing amnesia of two soloists in one evening could be explained only by the kind of foul play that Novelist Du Maurier put Svengali up to in Trilby. It was all the fault of a Dutch building contractor who practiced hypnosis and mental telepathy as a hobby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Svengali in Scheveningen? | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

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