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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years, got a real gala-Scala panning from Italian critics. Wrote Rome's Giornale d'Italia: "There is not an idea, not a melody, not a note which is not either closely or distantly attributable to someone else ... If this is what it means to write opera, let's not talk about it any more.'' But the audience enjoyed the show as much as New Yorkers have, called Menotti back for two dozen bows...
Human beings, Harding argues, are divided into two races, "one destructive and the other creative." The destructive has always won in the end, Harding believes, but that is no excuse for the historian to follow suit and write histories which are mere rosters of destructive triumphs. For some day, after all, the victory may go to the creative. Self-exiled Rene Harding is a "creative" man who is doomed to be defeated by "destructive" fellow men. His conquerors are not little Karl Marxes; they are average men who are stubbornly determined to lead average lives and to cold-shoulder...
Actually, Karpovich's most significant contribution to the knowledge of Russian history is yet to come. Although his writings to date have been mostly articles, he is currently planning, together with Professor George Vernadsky of Yale, to write a comprehensive ten-volume history of Russia covering the country's entire development from early times to the present day. Vernadsky is writing the first six volumes of the monumental project while Karpovich is scheduled to do the the last four, which will cover the years from 1800 on. When completed, the work will be the most comprehensive history of Russia...
...local pacifist group, which distributed leaflets at the University yesterday urging students to write their Congressman, is the Greater Boston Committee to Oppose UMT. Butcher is also a member of this group...
Anti-administration arguments, expected today on the House floor, will assert that the bill paves the way to universal military training. Thus far, UMT has never been able to proceed past debate. Lobby groups, including the National Council Against Conscription and the Methodist Church have been waging write-in battles with the Administration for months...