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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Colin, age four, "has a lightness of touch and a dexterity that will certainly put him on top of the heap if he ever takes up safe-cracking." His twin, Johnny, is a victim of the chaos and disorder which exist to be-wilder the precise mind. "Indeed," Mother reports, "if one of the beans on his plate is slightly longer than the others he can scarcely bear to eat it." The youngest child is fortunately only seventeen months old and only gurgles and smiles. His parents nevertheless have great hopes that he will grow up to be as eccentric...
...Viennese "Trout" Quintet sold 100,000 copies in five years and is still going strong; the peppery, well-publicized Budapest String Quartet sells about 50,000 records a year (Columbia). Most significant shift in the wind: RCA Victor, after acting for three years as if chamber music did not exist, put out four chamber music releases last month (including the eighth current, and rather saccharine, LP version of "The Trout"). RCA's reasoning: hi-fi and good sense will gently lead listeners to the delicacies of chamber music...
Even where other facilities such as buses exist, the roads must keep unprofitable lines running, though suburban travel is now compressed to rush periods twice a day. Nearly 90% of the Pennsylvania's suburban trains stand idle in off-peak hours, and the New York Central uses its $60 million commuter facilities at full capacity only 13% of the time...
...learning for social mobility or the defense of an already established social position. Indeed, he does not even consider the fact that all intellectual activity is a reaction to some stimulus, usually some sort of infantile frustration or deprivation. Nor does he consider the possibility that mental health may exist only in a human being who resembles a vegetable...
...candidates for the Student Council favor a student referendum to decide whether or not the Council should continue to exist. John S. Gracey '59 and D. Dwight Dogherty '59 both feel that the Council should not exist in its present form...