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Except for the editorial, this issue contains no 'ideological' articles. The viewpoint that its editors have reached, or returned to, cannot perhaps be enunciated in proclamations, and few can be convinced by the mere saying of it. Maybe the viewpoint can better be discovered in the stories and poems and pictures of this issue...
There is much more to this thick issue; the most notable are eight fine reproductions of drawings by Jackson Pollock. Taken even in sum, this issue's contribution don't seem to lack a viewpoint. The best of them, which might be called fantasies, seem to show how it feels, how funny it sometimes feels, to be human...
Setting aside his drawing tools for a moment, Britain's best-known cartoonist, aging (65) David Low, writing for the New York Times Magazine, deplored, from a caricaturist's viewpoint, the post-Stalin decline of "the cult of personality." Lamented Low: "There has been a steady decline in striking personality as compared with pre-war yesterday, with its Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Gandhi, Churchill, Roosevelt and company . . . Eisenhower offers opportunities, certainly, with his curiously shaped skull and short, wide face, but nobody could say he was a cartoonist's delight . . . Things are even worse with the British...
Councilor Al Vellucci expressed the hope yesterday that Student Council president Edward M. Abramson '57 would argue the Harvard viewpoint at the public hearings on alternate-side parking scheduled for next Monday...
...economics, and anthropology. It thought geography "The first essential basis of any area study," and many here are engaged in regional studies. Geography is an essential part of history, but while history's perspective is that of time, geography views societies in relation to the space they inhabit. This viewpoint has great value in a world of political blocs whose formation is greatly influenced by geographic factors...