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...eyed, hungry-looking man of 38, got the idea for his new opera from reading about a refugee who committed suicide when she was turned down for a visa. Says Menotti: "I know we must have some bureaucracy . . . but I cannot abide little people who, given a little power, wield it inflexibly and cruelly...
...week, he predicted a high level of business through at least igso's third quarter. There might be "some further drop in production and employment," said Slichter, "[but] I do not believe that it will be severe or long." And while Slichter thought that Government and unions would wield still bigger power in shaping the economy, it would remain one "run, in the main, by tens of millions of consumers each buying what they prefer, and by millions of business managers each using his own judgment as to what to make and how to make it ... So long...
...illegitimate son of an English doctor and a French ballet dancer, Meryon joined the French navy in 1841, resigned after seven years "because I did not feel solid enough, either physically or morally, to wield authority over men . . ." As a lonely alternative he took up painting, switched to etching when he found he was color blind. His technical perfectionism was the despair of Meryon himself ("I should have been a tinker"). Combined with his gloomy appreciation of Paris' medieval buildings, it gave his prints the quality of polished mirrors reflecting a magnificently sinister world. "I see an enemy behind...
Peroy will field the same men he has been using all year, with one possible exception. Tom Masterson may wield the saber this afternoon as well as the epee, his usual weapon...
Jane Rainie '50 and Alice Steer '50 will share the chairmanship of the new dormitory-commuter committee. Elizabeth Menzel '51 will wield the baton at the annual Annex song contest on the Quadrangle this term. Mia Atherton '51 was named to head the Alumnae fund committee...