Word: viewings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eden's internal troubles were far from over. No sooner had he issued his cease fire promise than he began to hedge it: the British-French forces would not leave until an "effective" U.N. police force was on hand, and Britain's view of effective was one that included the British. Eden wanted to have his assaulting forces deputized into law-enforcing U.N. policemen. Britain only did "what the U.N. without a police force could not do in time," was Eden's argument...
...early October. A request by the Young Republican Club to invite vice-President Nixon to a morning rally on the campus was turned down by Samuel T. Arnold, provost of the University, because the noise "might be very disruptive to classes." The Brown Daily Herald took a very dim view of this and felt the Young Republicans should have protested the decision. But as Lewis explained, "If you are bringing a major speaker here, the University must know all about it before he can come...
Although some student leaders view the future optimistically, within the rest of the undergraduate body there is a feeling of disillusionment with student government, a feeling that the administration is too all-powerful. This may be due to the fact that the administration is fairly strict in certain matters. Or it may be due to the fact that the administrators, in an effort to improve things, have spent a lot of time talking with student leaders, and have consequently left themselves open to charges of meddling. But most likely, it is a result of the University's policy of slow...
...dissenting view was given by Jaroslaw Bilinskij, who called a return to Stalinism "improbable," since he could find no one "who could be another Stalin." Bilinskij asserted, however, that Nikita Khrushchev's position may have been weakened during recent weeks. Relating this to the position of the satellites, Bilinskij felt that even if the present government should topple, neither Poland nor Hungary would ever be given full independence...
...pointing up the benefits to the college Shahn mentioned that artists could stimulate imagination and provide a more human view, helping to unify culture. Art, he said, could give students more than just verbal knowledge; it could give them intuitive and perceptive knowledge...