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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cannon House was turned over to the University in September, 1942 but Professor Cannon continued to live there up until his death in 1945. Both during Professor Cannon's time and since, the house has sheltered various types of enterprises, some pertaining to the University, some...
...second floor, rooms are assigned to various language groups and each one is equipped with a small special library containing a selection of works of general interest written in the several languages represented. In addition, there are copies of the most representative texts at different levels for the study of those languages and their literatures in schools and colleges. On this floor are rooms devoted to French, German, Spanish, Slavic, and Italian. Besides books, they contain many foreign language newspapers...
...Modern Language Center's main function today is as a meeting place for the eight clubs whose members get together there once every two weeks and as a place for receiving eminent guests or presenting public readings and discussion of selected works in various European literatures. The clubs include LeCercle Francais de Harvard, Verein Turmwaechter, Clube Hispanico, Linguistic, Luso-Brazilian, Slavic, Circolo Italiano, and Comparative Literature...
Humanitarians & Bureaucrats. For more than half a century, under various parties, insular New Zealand, with its butter and mutton economy, has been an experimental laboratory for welfare statism. Today, social security-paid for by a flat 5% tax on all private and corporate income -includes state-paid old-age pensions, unemployment benefits, medical and hospital care. Industry is heavily regulated, trade unionism and industrial arbitration compulsory. Liberal and conservative governments have shared in the vast social experiments. But ever since the Labor Party took office in 1935, what had begun as a humanitarian drive gradually ossified into bureaucratic socialism...
...tortured, sour-faced working man (Lamberto Maggiorani) whose only talent is to attract misery. He and his small son (Enzo Staiola) spend a grey Sunday scouring Rome for the stolen bicycle that is necessary to the father's bill-posting job. Their thief-chasing Odyssey takes them through various institutions (soup kitchen, church, bordello, political meeting, fortuneteller's), supposed to inspire or comfort the miserable. After being treated as a bumbling nuisance at each of these havens, the hero tries unsuccessfully to steal a bicycle, and then tearfully walks home to a hopeless existence...