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...apprentices who get themselves invited to the summer estate of a wealthy British couple and plan to rob the latter of their valuables and their nieces. An example of the frivolous boulevardier school of writing, the play harks back in form and style to the tradition of the commedia dell' arte, of Moliere and of Marivaux...
...appointments went to William Alfred, instructor in English and General Education; Otto Eckstein, instructor in Economics; Klaus W. Epstein, instructor in History; Dell H. Hynes, instructor in Social Anthropology; and Edward P. Morris, instructor in French and in History and Literature...
THRILLS!'' trumpets the April cover of Dell's Modern Romances. Wails quarterly Secret Confessions' current cover line: "I COMMITTED ADULTERY!" Inside the slick color covers, the so-called "confession" or "romance" magazines come through with sagas of sex and suffering that make the most lurid tabloid story read like Mother Goose. In the current issue of Standard Magazines' True Life Stories, a teen-ager in 7,000 action-packed words recounts her father's suicide, her poverty-ridden childhood with a lunatic grandmother, rape by a giggling maniac, seduction by her boss...
...Kaendler's pieces were intended chiefly for banquet settings of a sort that had previously been made in candy or wax. He could turn his patron's dining table into a miniature park or stage alive with glistening birds or gaily obscene mimes from the Italian Commedia dell'arte. Sometimes he would create a hunt, a concert, or a table-top display of drawing-room conceits. The Hand Kiss is part of a humorous circle of distractions derived from Molière, in which the gallant's daring is brought to nothing by the lady...
...replacement, Aramburu appointed Carlos Adrogué, a longtime anti-Peronista who tries to go down the middle of the road on the religious issue. Loud cries of Roman Catholic resentment at Dell'Oro's ousting suggested that the President had by no means settled the problem. But all Argentines took smiling satisfaction in the fact that opposing factions could dispute and demonstrate freely on a vital public issue without fear of Perón-style oppression. Even ex-Minister Dell'Oro said: "I'm proud of the free debates going on at this moment over this...