Word: cass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jack Paar Show (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Guests: Alan King and Peggy Cass...
...interest aroused by the Independent candidate yesterday did not prevent Joe Cass, an officer in charge of endorsement recommendations, from indicating that his committee would consider only the Democratic and Republican candidates...
...story concerns Cassandra Edwards' neurotic, domineering attachment for her twin sister Judith. Judy leaves the family ranch in Southern California to study music in the East, returns a year later with a fiance in tow. Cass, studying for a Ph.D. at Berkeley, is panic-stricken. She rushes home to break up the engagement, intends to regain possession of her less brilliant but saner sister's soul, and go off with her, far away, to live happily ever after. When other methods fail, Cass attempts suicide. But Judith and her young man, already secretly married, save her life...
...book flirts fashionably with incest and inversion (Cass has a curiously susceptible lady psychiatrist); the style is full of mannerisms and cultural snobberies, e.g., people are not openmouthed but bouche-bée. And how is the reader to care about a heroine who says, "Just give me the coup de grace and then have the gráce to leave graciously...
...students now carry five major subjects instead of four. "They can do much more than we thought," says one teacher. At suburban Chicago's New Trier Township High School, 57% of the students took extra courses last summer, mostly for the fun of it. At Detroit's Cass Technical High School, A-average Senior Harley Shaiken, 16, spends 37½ hours a week in classes that range from qualitative analysis to enriched English literature. He works on the school paper, studies three hours every night, never watches TV and does not own a car. Why does Harley work...