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...worth their keep, to Showman Billy, were any of the Met's 38 directors: "Letting Belmont, Bliss, Colt, Dillon, Reed, Whitney, Winthrop et al. boss our most complicated entertainment venture is as daffy as letting Harpo Marx run U.S. Steel. In the old days . . . Otto Kahn and his contemporaries . . . were willing to pay for the privilege of making the Met their hobby . . . But today's directors have shown little facility with the fountain pen . . . they (should) hold one last meeting and fire themselves...
Comfort and bliss...
...ever wrote before. Decorated with prints by Chagall, Picasso and Rouault, The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder contains not one touch of profanity. It is also written with surprising restraint. The Smile is the story of a clown, Auguste, who throws up his career to find true bliss in just being himself. "To be yourself, just yourself, is a great thing . . . You try neither to be one thing nor another, neither great nor small, neither clever nor maladroit . . ." Auguste's search for his true identity is a dangerous quest and it ends fatally, but not before...
...chief reason for the radical shift in Radcliffe figures, according to the survey, seems to stem from the trend in Radcliffe marriages. Only 59 percent of the 'Cliffe Class of 1923 is married, while 72 percent of the Class of 1938 has already achieved marital bliss...
...acting as human alarm clocks. Smoking is forbidden except for first-classmen (seniors), parents are advised to keep weekly pocket allowances to 75?, and there is a compulsory Saturday sewing-hour for Milton girls. Unlike many New England prep schools, Milton has no required religion courses. But Headmaster Arthur Bliss Perry, 49, son of Harvard's famed scholar Bliss Perry, and a Milton teacher since 1921, tries to impress on his well-bred boys & girls "the obligation of the unenforceable...