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...South: I" in the Dec. 1 issue of the CRIMSON, we agree that his article sounded "one-sided" in the extreme. We can agree with Mr. Halberstam's view that the NAACP denouncement of the treatment of Negroes in the South generally and in Mississippi particularly is propaganda. (Webster's Collegiate Dictionary defines propaganda as, "Any organized or concerted group, effort, or movement to spread particular doctrines, information, etc.") But it does not follow that, as Mr. Halberstam's article implies, propaganda as such is a falsehood or is destructive. And we do not believe that the NAAP's propaganda...
Marx has puffed his way through Webster in twelve years. Now, on the second time around, his favorite expression is Dum Vivimus, Vivamus, which can be freely translated as "Live It Up." He found the exhortation so appealing that he had it embroidered on a batch of silk neckties that he gives away. His newest favorite word is "charismatic," a theological adjective pertaining to one who has a divine endowment to carry on the work to which he was called. Understandably. Marx caused a sensation when he applied the word to Ike at a White House dinner before...
Queen of the Sciences. Once again religion has become intellectually respectable. "In my day." says David Webster, acting dean of men at Temple University, "we were apt to say that religion is a superstition." Today, says Chaplain Richard Unsworth of Smith College, "theology is no longer classed with domestic science as a subject not suited for a liberal arts college." Adds Bowdoin's William Geoghegan: "One average student was recently asked if he thought theology was the 'Queen of the Sciences.' He replied: 'I don't know, but I can see how it could...
...THEATER New Revue in Manhattan Catch a Star! (music by an and Phil Chang; lyrics by Paul Webster and Ray Golden; sketches by Dannyand Neil Simon) got the new Broadway season off to a respectable but unexciting start. Perhaps half its numbers have at least their pleasant moments- a far from disgraceful average for revues, but a dubious recommendation for audiences...
...JACK M. WEBSTER Fort Worth, Texas...