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...Diet, the House of Councilors. At stake in the elections were the seats of 125 Councilors whose terms ended this year, as well as seven more seats which had fallen vacant through death or resignation. A major shift in the distribution of these 132 seats could change significantly the complexion of the 250-man House...
...Though what was shown was extremely pallid entertainment--and was presumably what the producer and director at the moment considered the best of the lot--nevertheless, I distinctly felt cheated at seeing only two-thirds of "Dance Me A Song." Ten new good acts could have changed the whole complexion of the show. Should you see it later on, may you get a better deal out of the shuffle than I did. But it's a gamble I wouldn't recommend...
After returning from a weekend which completely changed the complexion of its record, the varsity squash team will try to stretch its string of consecutive wins to five today when it plays single matches with the Agawam Hunt Club...
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...your Aug. 22 issue: "[Elizabeth Taylor's] complexion has been described by an ecstatic publicity man as 'a bowl of cream with a rose floating in it.' " Please compare . . . Elegy on Cynthia of Sextus Propertius: "Lilies would not surpass my mistress for whiteness; 'tis as though maeotic snows were to strive with Spanish vermillion, or rose leaves floated amid stainless milk (utque rosae puro lacte natant folia)." Please remember Propertius lived circa 24 B.C., and besides, Cynthia, we are told, had yellow hair and black eyes. Could she have been the ecstatic publicity...