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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peter Blake, Curator of Architecture at New York's Museum of Modern Art, will lecture at 8 p.m. tonight in Keen Hall on the subject, "Objective version Subjective." The talk, which is open to the public, is under the sponsorship of the Student Council of the Graduate School of Design...
...than the chess club, you've probably bought yourself an ulcer. You've got to get approved by the Student Council and by the Dean's Office. You've got to keep on file at the Dean's Office a complete list of members and an up-to-date version of your constitution. Every one of your members must be a member of Harvard University, and half of them must be students at Harvard College. You can't undertake any activity outside the limits of Cambridge without Dean's Office permission. You've got to get Dean's Office approval...
...King's Men (Columbia), a movie version of Robert Penn Warren's 1947 Pulitzer Prizewinning novel, is a tabloid view of a power-mad politician who has set his heart on bossing the world. The best of recent Hollywood attempts to fuse studio and documentary styles, this slam-bang indictment of grass-roots demagoguery is full of punch and color: melodramatic shots of campaign barbecues, torchlight parades, legislative brawling and backroom political deals...
...Union of South Africa has long had language trouble. Of its citizens, 1,226,382 speak Afrikaans (a simplified version of Dutch); 875,541 speak English; only 35,889 speak both. Since the country was officially declared bilingual in 1925, all official communications were supposed to be written in both Afrikaans and English; but in bureaucratic practice, a letter written in English was answered in English, a petition phrased in Afrikaans answered in Afrikaans. Last week the Department of Defense decided to end this haphazard arrangement. Setting a fashion which the whole government is expected to follow soon, the Department...
...Father (by August Strindberg; English version by Robert L. Joseph; produced by Richard W. Krakeur & Mr. Joseph, in association with Harry Brandt) is one of the most vitriolic plays ever written. A man who suffered from, quarreled with and hated women because he loved them, who felt perpetually persecuted and all but went mad, Swedish Playwright Strindberg wrote The Father as a testimonial to his first marriage. Conceived in loathing and dedicated to the proposition that all women are created evil, The Father, first produced in 1887, inspired a new theatrical naturalism...