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When the shouting and hissing were over, poet and historian Peter Viereck '37 had led the affirmative side of the debate to a 30 to 29 victory on the question "Resolved, That this House condemns the double standard of morality set by intellectuals who have not opposed communism as ardently as other forms of totalitarianism...
Peter J. O. Self 1G defended the intellectuals against Viereck's onrush of words, contending that there was no reason why intellectuals should not have been easier with Communism than with Fascism during...
...Peter Viereck '37, Pulitzer prize winning poet and author of the controversial "Shame and Glory of the Intellectuals" will speak for the motion. Other main speakers will include Hugh J. Schwartzburg '53, a first prize winner in this year's Boylston Prize Speaking Contest; William A. Rusher, chairman of the Board of Governors of the New York State Young Republican Club; and Peter Self 2G, former member of the Oxford Union...
College and grad school speakers will attack and defend Viereck's position, and the house will vote a decision...
...Viereck has been called by Robert Frost "the present hope of poetry." His latest book, however, was criticized by critic Orville Prescott as "in many of its arguments . . . dogmatically and belligerently controversial...