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Diehl's contention that the Council must more clearly establish its usefulnes or wither away was echoed in a letter to the CRIMSON (to be printed Wednesday) from Michal J. M. Galazka '64, former HCUA secretary. Galazka charged the Council has operated "in an atmosphere of student apathy and official disinterest, or, worse, manipulation...
...terrible story. And yet, Goodwin probably has more writing talent than any other contributor to the Lion Rampant. His story begins, The water was named in derision by a generation of luckless farmers: Burnt Crop Creek, because they had watched the stalks of cotton and even of corn wither in the sun, and heard the heavy winds rattle through the hone dry fields like seeds ticking in a gourd. They merely quit the land, leaving that fractious patient stream to reclaim its banks. Another generation arose, their birthright of planting cancelled: they went through the forest and chalked the highest...
...also disarms criticism-up to a point-by asking the reader's question for him: Why should a man who voted Communist in 1932 now argue so passionately against "state control"? He was "naive enough," he answers, to take seriously Lenin's promise that the state would "wither away." He admits: "It may seem naive, and even stupid, on the part of one who had worked for years on a journal which specialized in public affairs [the New Republic] that he should have paid so little attention to recent changes in the income tax laws." He reports sheepishly...
...projects. But its biggest prize would be the new products and whole new industries that science and socialism are to create. The state would also control the cadres of scientists and reserves of knowledge that his government would call forth. Wilson says he is content to let established industries "wither away" in private hands. "All he wants," remarked one observer, "is the growth stocks...
...Conductor Erich Leinsdorf arrived at Tanglewood with the Boston Symphony Orchestra this summer, he announced his plans in a gentle flurry of aphorisms. "Tanglewood is a tree with many branches," he has said in a typical comment on the bucolic Massachusetts festival. "You can't tell which will wither away and which will blossom." Last week, as the Tanglewood season closed to the music of rave reviews, the Tanglewood tree, well-watered at the roots, seemed to be blooming more richly than ever...