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...wrote: "These people are the delight of my soul." He made hundreds of converts, sowed the seed of a Japanese church that numbers more than 100,000 Catholics in present-day Japan. Among them 1,200 missionaries, re-admitted after V-J day, are preaching and teaching to widen the saint's work...
...full years' programs show that over two thirds of the music played was not French. A surprisingly large amount of all the music Munch programmed has seldom been played in Boston during Koussevitzky's reign. Munch has an extremely broad repertory, and there is no doubt that he will widen that of the Boston Symphony considerably. The same is true for the Harvard Glee Club, which will be singing many works for the first time in years under Munch...
Whether Stalin can contain Titoism within its present manageable proportions, or whether it will widen into an irreparable schism, is a question for the best Russian brains. But Titoism has already achieved one thing-it has exploded the theory that communism, if it came to power, could bring the world unity and peace. For that, at least, loudmouthed Dictator Tito deserved the West's gratitude. As one American observer in Europe put it last week: "The time is surely come when the West should stop thinking of communism as a block which might splinter but can never crack...
...United Nations organization . . . has so far been rent and distracted by the antagonism of Soviet Russia and by the fundamental schism which has opened between communism and the rest of mankind. But we must not despair. We must persevere, and if the gulf continues to widen, we must make sure that the cause of freedom is defended by all the resources of combined forethought and superior science. Here lies the best hope of averting a third world struggle...
Regular concentration dinners with speakers from the University help to widen acquaintance. These are supplemented by House dinners several times during the year. The Christmas dinner, crowned but a whole pig, apple in mouth, and the spring dinner with outstanding guests have become K-House traditions. Additional meetings, such as that with Robert Frost this winter, occur not infrequently. Semi-annual Nocturnal Collations--beer parties--and the Spring Formal complete the list of significant events. Activities of this sort have contributed to the House's reputation as the most democratic...