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...decade a stream articles purporting to present an intimate portrait of the Radcliffe dating community has flooded our national magazines. Usually these articles do not claim to discuss Harvard alone; they offer glimpses of promiscuity at Smith or tradition at Wassar, but in the end they focus Cambridge--the apex of college romance. For somehow, to the eyes of the world, the Harvard romance is indeed romantic...
These "soldier-industrialists" hold "sales conferences" and order subaltern flacks to tailor the corporate image. A photographer is told to do a general "from his good side only." From relatively safe distances, the symbolic big guns pump shells at the enemy. At the apex of this busy wedge of "middlemen," the "common laborers" at the front die in anonymous perplexity, to be replaced at once by other men whose dog tags were stamped at the same factory...
Speaking in New Orleans in 1959, Architect Walter Gropius, then 76, sadly noted: "I have been 'nobody's baby' during just those years of middle life which normally bring a man to the apex of his career, when seed sown earlier should have come to fruition." True enough, the man who in 1919 founded the Bauhaus, and who later transformed Harvard's Graduate School of Design into one of the finest architectural schools in the U.S., had been asked to build comparatively little. But for once in his life, Walter Gropius turned...
...Billy Wilder's THE APARTMENT is a half-funny, half-frightening probe into the mores of mid-century Big Business. The thousand faces of Jack Lemmon are uniformly hilarious; but Fred MacMurray, a boss-type figure and also a happy adulterer, is just an ugly slob. Shirley MacLaine, the apex of the triangle, is unusually wistful; at one point, she is made to attempt suicide. Whatever else it may be The Apartment is most definitely not the most amusing film since Some Like It Hot. Daily...
White, colored or integrated, so few clubs wanted Negro comedians that he was out of work for six months, eventually opened his own place, the Apex Club, in suburban Robbins. It failed. In 1959, when the Pan American games were held in Chicago, Gregory borrowed money and gave an enormous party for team members and guests at Roberts Show Club, a big South Side club. Running through his routines for 2,500 people, he so impressed the owner that he was soon booked there at $125 a week. Other bookings followed in Akron and Milwaukee, led him back to Chicago...