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...forgets that Harvard is an institution for higher education, not an academic subordinate of the ADA. If Mr. Moley's standards were to be followed, material success and public acclaim would be the only criteria to be utilized in choosing lecturers, and students would be safely inculcated with whatever viewpoint the contemporary majority holds...
...newsworthy but not very happy. The U.S.S.R. annual economic report, while claiming an 11% increase in industrial output, listed some serious deficiencies: capital investment was down 6%, and coal, iron, cement, glass, some machine tools and much farm machinery fell short of set goals. More important, from the viewpoint of the elite, dwelling construction fell short of aims by 30 million sq. ft. The same economic report told of a 20% increase in the 1956 grain harvest, mainly due to heavy plantings in the Siberian "virgin lands"-a pat on the back for those who had responded to Khrushchev...
...Communist names at the top of the ballots. Their defiance was subtly encouraged by the Stalinist Communist leaders whom Gomulka supplanted, who did not hesitate to appeal to Poland's latent anti-Semitism and describe the Gomulka faction as a "bunch of Jews." From their viewpoint, an anti-Communist demonstration at the polls would constitute a massive nonconfidence vote in Gomulka, and justify a Stalinist revival in which they would return to power, if necessary with the support of Soviet tanks...
...People section, you printed a paragraph about me, stating that I had publicly announced that my book, The Outsider, was a fraud. What I actually said was that The Outsider is a fraud as a work of philosophy. When someone has written a book which expresses an intensely personal viewpoint, he is bound to feel a fraud when people hail it as "representing the younger generation, etc." Nevertheless, The Outsider was written with deadly serious intent...
From an architectural viewpoint, he explained that Memorial Hall, constructed in 1878 at a cost of $370,000, represented an architectural period which "cannot be highly regarded for its appeal in design...