Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Insight, a "magazine of contemporary expression," arrived on the Cambridge newsstands this summer boasting an attractive cover and a high price. But the content does not meet the expectation of the trappings, for hard work is required to find anything of value among the poems and prose of Insight...
...Kumaraswami Kamaraj Nadar, 63, barrel-chested boss of Madras, who as president of the Congress Party dreamed up the consensus scheme as a means of installing Shastri after Nehru's death. But Kamaraj speaks only Tamil, and even if Shastri were to vanish, would be content to remain only a kingmaker and cash collector for the party. Last week Kamaraj was touring his home state, preceded by an elephant with bells on its toes, to celebrate his birthday. In lieu of gifts he collected $350,000 for the party coffers...
Advice from Men. Although they focus on fashion, the magazines are not content merely to clothe a girl; they want to improve her across the board. To this end, they run articles on the latest fads and campus rebellions. Outside columnists weigh in with portentous advice: Peter Sellers tells how to create the real self; Dr. Albert Ellis tells how to pick up a man in a ladylike fashion. The magazines run fiction of a sort that delicately explores feminine sensibilities, authors ranging from Truman Capote to Irwin Shaw...
...length Ruby called for a vote on "how many people want these demands presented" to the administration. The Summer News card recorded 9 for parietal hours, 12 for a student review of the content of courses, 16 for the opening of the pool room and other Harvard facilities, 7 for longer hours in Lamont, and 5 for doing something about the long lines in the Union...
...both moods are refreshingly convincing. The program notes explain that this play of Heywood's was written in 1533 as "pure entertainment." As such, it succeeds quite well; light and artfully done, it is a delightful bit of nonsense. Someone who wants to get annoyed or insulted at the content matter (the lecherous priest who is having an affair with his parishioner's wife) can find good excuse, but if you view the play solely for amusement, it's quite enjoyable. Innes McDade, as Tyb, was good on the whole, but rather tedious. Her facial expressions tended...