Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Members of the new committee will investigate ways that Annex students can take a tuck in their budgets, and later this term, will publicize part-time jobs, chores around the college and other means of saving and earning money...
This may be only a temporary committee, Miss Braverman added last night. "It's only an investigatory setup, and once all opportunities of earning money around Radcliffe and Cambridge have been studied, the group may split...
Other points of interest include Robert Young, who hasn't changed a bit since the picture was made, and the characterization, strange in this day of science-on-the-comic-pages, of engineers as earnest young men who scurry around in knee-breeches lugging a surveyor's transit under each arm. Young appears thoroughly crocked for the majority of the movie, which is no loss. It makes you appreciate Hepburn just so much more...
...Crete have a wonderful time choosing husbands, but sex, for the elite, is only for breeding purposes; the rest of the time, explains a poet, "we lie side by side, or foot to foot, without bodily contact, and our spirits float upward and drift in a waving motion around the room." Homosexuals and other biological misfits, such as hens that cannot lay eggs, are treated to euthanasia. (The same goes for those who violate "custom" and are repudiated by their class.) Otherwise, all violence, even impoliteness, is tabu-though occasionally New Cretan males are allowed to let off steam...
...tell you it makes me sick to my stomach seeing all those suckers drive down from New Hampshire and Maine and Boston and Connecticut just to watch a bunch of goats limp around a small-time track for feed money...