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Jean Simmons was only 18 when she played Ophelia. She plays the sane scenes with a baffled docility, a faint aura of fey, and a tender suggestion of nascent maturity. All this may go a long way toward persuading 20th Century audiences that a young girl really could so sedulously obey a meddlesome old father, and really could lose her mind when her estranged lover killed him. She plays the mad scenes as if she had never heard that Ophelia is one of Shakespeare's most shameless tearjerkers, and as if her lovely language and her cracked, ribald little...
...This aura of friendliness and enthusiasm manifests itself in more ways than one. Annually it charts out through the various House committees, and winds up in House forums, amateur theatricals, recitals, and refresher courses...
...unfriendly atmosphere between the two squads reigned during the whole meet. In the final matches, tempers flared up, and the duelling began to take on a Hollywood aura. One or two matches were halted after several nasty welts has been landed...
Compared with the huge pile of Gothic above it, the Psychology Department's home is as out of place as a television set in a monastery. Bright tile floors, fluorescent lighting, carved woodwork, and brick glass inlays give an aura of ultra-modernism that outdistances anything else in the University...
...countenance within University Hall. It resulted from great undergraduate interest combined with a particularly distinguished group of men on the Faculty. The Administration sat quietly by, watching carefully all the while. It tacitly approved the productions offered by the French, German, English, and Classics Departments, as these had an aura of educational value. The debut, in 1881, of this phase of dramatics was the performance of "Oedipus Tyrannus" in Sanders. Its being by an ancient made it passable. Its being given in Greek made it somewhat laudable. And its being the first known performance in America of a classical play...