Word: beaute
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Humanities S-9: It looks like a beaut: the course will study the five plays being put on by the Harvard Summer Players (Shaw's Millionaires, Pinters The Dumb Walter; Beckett's Happy Days; Chekov's Uncle Vanya; and Brecht's Trumpets and Drums). Students will attend some rehearsals, discuss the plays, and perhaps take a bit part in the Brecht for credit in the course. Lectures will be by the Load's three Faculty directors, Robert Chapman, Daniel Seltzer, and George Hamlin. A warning: you'll be competing for grades with some of the members of the Summer Players...
...weather satellite Tiros spotted it first, and the photograph drew whistles from a forecaster at the San Juan, P.R., weather station. "There it is," he said, "and it's a beaut...
...Mind Benders. "PERVERTED! SOULLESS! A LOVE AFFAIR DESTROYED BY AN EXPERIMENT SO TERRIFYING IT DEFIES HUMANITY!" Sound bloody awful? It is. And that's a shame, because it needn't have been. The plot of this British thriller has a built-in beaut of a scientific gimmick: a visual recapitulation of some eerie experiments in "sensory deprivation" conducted recently in Britain and the U.S. Object of the experiments: to find out what happens to people who for long periods forgo the use of their senses (sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell, weight and direction...
...York, inevitably, furnishes a fascinating example. Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller, now conceding that he made "a beaut of a mistake" last sum mer in the midst of his campaign for re-election in overestimating New York tax revenues by some $200 million for the coming fiscal year, nevertheless claims that he will observe his campaign pledge not to raise taxes. He is asking for a $48 million increase in state auto license fees and a $57 million hike in liquor license charges. Without a smile, he insists that these are not tax increases. Irate motorists, many of whose auto tabs...
...Pope and the President had several good laughs, and the best evidence is that this one came when the Pope, about to read his formal address in his newly learned English, prefaced it with the exclamation, "Ora ne senti una bella!" Translation: "This is going to be a beaut...