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John Trinkaus like to dabble in philosophy. Norman Pearson From the tuisted fabric of fiction, verbal artifacts. Paul Weiss Man is an architect, a maker of himself. • » A GREAT university, said Car- Maynard Mack Hints and guesses . . . the theme of King Lear and the tragedy of Ufe. •A lyle, is a collection of books. But if this was true for some at Yale, for many more it was the faculty which made the Uni- versity a center of learning. If the past had been graced with the names of Tinker, Phelps, Silliman, Dana, Sumner, Woolsey and Chit- tenden, the present was equally blessed. Some were spellbinders ; others were vitriolic ; many were quietly inspiring, provoking re- flection and speculative inquiry. In the lecture hall, in the informal discussion, in the semi- nar, Yale ' s faculty carried forward a proud tradition. Vincent Scully Forms moving in time and space. Cecil Driver With opportunity goes responsibility. Henri Peyre The nightmare of civilization ' s collapse obsesses us. 11

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SIGHTS tloiniiiiiK l Juno. If you were at Yale, you saw 1954 candidates for degree on June 2, Frank Lloyd Wright being among those to receive an honorary degree. If you were a member of the French National Assembly, you saw the first, but not the last, of a new premier, Pierre Mendes- France. If you were a congressman, you saw the wrong end of a Puerto-Rican pistol, and you might have gone to the hospital because of it. If you were Ed Furgol, you saw your final putt drop to win the National Open golf championship. If you were Joseph elch, you saw Joe McCarthy through a blur of tears, and you blurted out: Have vou no sense of d ' For France and the free world: a Pyrrhic victory. JULY was a month of quotas. Aneurin Bevan fought the EDC with no ■runs for the Huns ; eight months later Be- van was ousted from the Labor Party. Roy Cohn resigned as chief counsel to McCarthy: I extend to the great American jury my heartfelt thanks for its loyal support. John I -n-ter Dulles, Secretary of State, began bifl agonizing reappraisal, and after seven and a half years fighting ended in Indo-China. A Edward R. Murrow might have said, you could hear the world quiet down. Names and personalities also made the news of tin- world in that month. Hfolotoi laughed when he heard that the Geneva Con- For Dr. Sam: Guilty. ference had failed. Dr. Sam Sheppard in- sisted that a bushy-haired man had mur- dered his wife, but a jury thought differently, when, five months later, the longest criminal court trial in United States history ended. Christian Dior crashed the headlines in the most effective way possible: he flattened the American woman ' s figure. The World Council of Churches held a mass meeting in Evanston, Illinois. August was a month of birth and death: Vito Marcantonio, De Gasperi, and the EDC in France had passed away, but ex-president Herbert Hoover celebrated his eightieth birthday. For M endes-F ranee : cheers and jeers. % ' Id

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Conversation is hushed and shushed. SEPTEMBER brought the Yale man back to Yale, back to the un- changed scene (unchanged, that is, except for damage done by the female hurricanes, Carol and Edna ) . Harriman was elected gov- ernor of New York, and Vargas committed suicide, but sports dominated the month as the New York Giants whipped the Yankee- killing Cleveland Indians in four straight, with some aid from the heavy-hitting Dusty Rhodes and the irrepressible Willie Mays. Yale men ' s eyes were glued to the television sets. Yale President A. Whitney Griswold, however, had his own ideas about television as he lamented to Brown ' s 191st convocation: (Conversation) is hushed and shushed in dimly lighted parlors by television audiences who used to read, argue, and even play bridge, an old fashioned card game requiring speech. It was obvious, however, that low- brow stimulation could still sell movie tickets at the Lincoln as the Sunday afternoon flick squad showed that it was a boom and bust year for Italian cinemactress Gina Lollobri- gida and her cohorts. Entertainment on a national level was of the best variety. Marlon Brando continued to prove himself the movie ' s most talented actor, while the newcomer Grace Kelly added a quiet dignity to the screen which was wel- come to movie-goers. Audiences agreed with critics when Brando I On the Waterfront ' I and Kelly ( The Country Girl ) received the Academy Award presentations. Broadwa] was alive with smash hits, and on television George Cobcl was the top man on the ladder of comedians. WHAT were you doing in October? If you were Harry Truman, you were demanding a Democratic congress. If you were Winston Churchill, you were celebrating your 80th birthday. If you were Yale pro- fessor Cecil Driver, you were lecturing to a record class of 600, and waiting for Church- ill to dissolve Parliament as an object lesson for your group. And if you were Ernest Hemingway, you had just been awarded the Nobel Prize. The famous Yankee Clipper, Joe DiMaggio, had a difficult time being compatible with Marilyn, much to the surprise of most of the American male population. The ban on Smith ' s Mountain Day was announced; Blad- derball made its debut on the campus; and the university deficit reached the million dollar mark. A few students were finding private enterprise quite profitable, although most of the set who tried the build up your wealth letters found their names still at the end of a long, long list. Elsewhere, there was the sound of rejoic- ing as Trieste was turned over to Italy; not-so-happy sound of cancer reached the ears of cigarette smokers. Mendes-France ' s ears heard the sound of a vote of confidence on the German Rearmament, and the whole world breathed a little easier. Hot air and cold beer: Mountain Day ' s last gasp. 12