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...someone had given them a gross of prophylactics, locked them in a motel room for two weeks, and let them get it out of their systems." Boys and girls together reject the post-Renaissance notion that passion, like a chrysanthemum, blooms best when vigorously pinched off. Says Sybil Burton Christopher, who married 25-year-old Bandleader Jordan Christopher after Richard Burton left her for Liz Taylor: "They're breaking away from the unrealities of romantic love to get at the core of love...
does not surprise his fellow Britons, who rank him after the aging acting knights-Olivier, Richardson, Guinness, Gielgud, Redgrave-and ahead of the young hotspurs represented by Albert Finney and Robert Stephens. Indeed, Scofield, 44, is pretty much a generation all to himself; once Richard Burton shared that status, but as Burton confided to a friend, "When I saw Scofield act, I knew I could never be that great, so I decided to grab the loot...
Married. Robert G. Wesselman, 38, former Roman Catholic monsignor and official of the diocese of Belleville, Ill., who resigned from the priesthood last Oct. 24; and Frances Burton, 36, divorced mother of two; in Hardin, Ill., on Nov. 18. Wesselman, who intends to take a job in an antipoverty program, said he had resigned because the church had failed "to sufficiently identify with those who suffer from prejudice...
Offstage as well. Once Burton phoned her out of the blue: "I don't think you should say those awful things about me," he kidded. "I hear you said you were the only leading lady I hadn't slept with." Replied Julie sweetly: "Richard, do you think that I'd want that sort of thing to get around?" But, inevitably, the kidding had to stop. Camelot, despite the big names, did not live up to the extravagant expectations; it was too much a light opera, too little a musical comedy. Julie decamped after 18 months...
With the added electives, humanities courses now account for nearly half the Point's curriculum. The reason, says Lieut. Colonel Wilfred Burton, who teaches English, is that the Army exists to defend freedom and "preserve the dignity of man," but to do that, its officers must first "know the nature of man." Burton exposes students to such contemporary writers as W. H. Auden and Edward Albee, plays devil's advocate by roaring at his classes: "Army officers are just machines, aren't they? If they're told to go out and massacre the innocents, they...