Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jean-Paul Sartre was brooding about the U.S. version of his new play Red Gloves. It had been corrupted, he grumbled from Paris, into a "vulgar, common melodrama with an anti-Communist bias," and he wanted to see and approve a copy of the script before the show officially opened. Nonsense, snorted Producer Jean Dalrymple from Boston, where the show was trying out. The Sartre play had only been shortened, and besides, it was being rewritten all the time. And what's more, she added, Boston had given it "wonderful, wonderful reviews," and it would open in Manhattan this...
...brought samples of his best canes with him. "Aren't they beautiful?" he asked, and thereupon launched happily into his lecture about his canes ("My canes are antiseptic"), and how they should be used. "You may think me an ogre," he said. "But corporal punishment is a common-sense doctrine. Boys & girls are not always angelic...
...Dixieland jazz band will present a free concert in Lowell House Junior Common Room at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow. The group of eight plays in the old Dixieland style, improvising on New Orients and later Chicago standards...
Adams, Dunster, and Leverett committeemen announced plans for using their shares of the season's profits to buy television sets for their common rooms...
Would-be nominees must submit petitions bearing 25 signatures at 6:30 p.m. Sunday night in the Union Common Room. At that time, new campaign rules will be explained. Elections are Tuesday, December...