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...exotic $75 dracaena house plant. For Business Writer Jack Kramer, a former London resident, economizing on energy is old news. "The English advise one to gravitate toward rooms full of warm bodies and drink lots of warming spirits, two energy-conserving principles that rind their ultimate expression in a communal effort called a licensed public house." Says Kramer: "I can especially recommend this tactic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 3, 1973 | 12/3/1973 | See Source »

There was standing room only at Harvard's Lowell Lecture Hall as more than 1,200 eager students crowded in for the opening of one of the hottest courses on campus. Human Sexuality 101? Analytical Communal Living 202? Mysticism 303? Hardly. It was Economics 10, the standard survey course for beginners. Enrollment in the course is up 43% from last fall, and nearly one in every five Harvard undergrads is taking it. The Harvard campus is not alone. At Columbia and Barnard, at Atlanta's black Morehouse College and the patrician University of Virginia, at universities all across...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEACHING: More Popular Than Dismal | 11/26/1973 | See Source »

...This is partly because Storey peppers the play with a fusillade of humor, much of it of the caustic one-upmanship variety at which the British have few equals and no superiors. In The Contractor, as in The Changing Room, Storey reveals himself as a celebrator of communal male effort. The task of playing a rugby game knits the men of The Changing Room together in pleasure and in pain. The task of putting up and taking down the tent in The Contractor is not a stage charade. It is real and intricate work, a team effort that requires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: On to the Triple Crown | 11/5/1973 | See Source »

Ferry's plan called for low-cost rooms and communal bathrooms to be built in the extension, making Winthrop a long, curved building with four wings jutting toward the river...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard That Never Was | 10/26/1973 | See Source »

Claude comes under the influence of a couple of married swingers (Nathalie Delon, Jean-Pierre Marielle) who try to enlist him in the joys of communal sex. He is tempted but resists, and instead uses his wife as an outlet for his mounting energies and disintegrating inhibitions, as well as his expanding knowledge of geometrically complex sexual postures. After his wife persuades him to hire a clerk to staff the shop (Beatrice Romand), Claude tries to seduce the clerk, but she turns out to be more interested in Claude's wife. Finally every body goes off on a sort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: French Postcard | 10/1/1973 | See Source »

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