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...that, for its wholesale scale, dwarfs the war-begotten atrocities of El Biar. But nothing can justify the use of torture by any nation passing as civilized. Henri Alleg's ordeal is a parable that mirrors the failure of France's Algerian policy. Just as Whitman found a blade of grass sufficient to stagger an army of atheists, so one man's will to be fully and freely a man has, through the ages, risen to rout the massed legions of tyranny...
...Everything drags me now"). A kind of urban waif in the asphalt jungle, he regularly tastes despair, or what Kerouac calls "the pit and prunejuice of poor beat life itself in the god-awful streets of man." Sometimes he "flips," i.e., goes mad. Allen Ginsberg, 32, the discount-house Whitman of the Beat Generation, begins his dithyrambic poem Howl (which the New York Times's Critic J. Donald Adams has suggested should be retitled Bleat) with the lines: "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets...
Juanita K. Cohen '59 of Whitman Hall and New York City was elected President of Radcliffe's Class of 1959 on Friday. The other candidates were Anne Baker, Jean J. Darling, Ellen Fitzpatrick, and Janette Middleton...
...quality of stories and poems in The Editor is not at all high, though there are some welcome pieces from the extremely able pen of Arthur Freeman, who in two poems shows his customary grace and imagination with words. Ruth Whitman, too, has contributed an excellent short poem entitled "Aubade." And Robert Johnson, another gifted poet, appears with "A Poem Baltazar Zevakin," which is both funny and visionary...
...Deciding that it was "high time to stop subsidizing student wheels," President Chester Maxey of Walla Walla's Whitman College (841 students, some 300 autos) issued an ultimatum: no more financial grants for students who keep cars on campus...