Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...helps run the work system. The work chairmen who are elected or appointed to run the program in each House are rewarded by being exempted from work themselves. In return for this benefit they see to it that students show up to wait at the meal shifts and take bell duty...
...beginning of the term students face the choice of either signing up for bell duty or for "waiting on." Girls who take bells spend several hours a week at the bell desk near the front door of each dormitory. Cabot Hall" or correspondingly appropriate phrase each time they answer the phone. They are plagued by women wanting baby-sitters and boys looking for blind-dates, but are not allowed to help the latter...
...Bell, Book and Candle (by John van Druten; produced by Irene Mayer Selznick) comes up with a bright comedy idea and, for perhaps better than half the evening, with a bright comedy. Playwright van Druten has assumed not only that there are modern-day witches but that they can be modish and highly efficient, and that one of them is attractive enough to ensnare a bright Manhattan publisher. When the publisher discovers she is a witch, he walks out on her-only for her to discover she is now a woman. Hoist on her own broomstick, she has fallen...
...warlocks are as conceivable as they are entertaining, and his heroine, both before & after, makes a lively minx. Gradually, however, the social and business life of witches is dulled by repetition; eventually the odd charm of boy-meets-witch slumps into the old hat of boy-finds-girl. Bell, Book and Candle lacks the resourceful twists that kept a fantasy like Blithe Spirit gay to the end; it moves in the opposite-and less rewarding-direction of a fantasy like Lady into...
...CRIMSON Telephone Directory goes on sale in all University dining halls during lunch and dinner today and tomorrow. It will also be sold at the bell desks in the Radcliffe dormitories between 6:30 and 7:30 p.m. on these two days...