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There is hardly a novel in the English language which offers more difficulties to the movie producer than "The River," Rumer Godden's beautiful and deeply sensitive story of a girl's adolescence in India. Adolescence is rocky stuff for the movies anyway--it is all inside while the camera...
Although Shakespeare might turn over in his grave if he could see what happened to his "The Taming of the Shrew." audiences are still enjoying Cole Porter's gay musical after to years of popularity. While it was still a Broadway success, producers Saint Suber and Lemuel Ayers organized a...
The expert Harvardman, therefore, must be practiced in Studymanship and Sexmanship. He must also be a Cultureman, steeped in the arts, high above the common herd in aesthetic sensibility. The Cultureman must have a carefully selected library including several rather seedy books, "picked up in a tiny bookstall on the...
But FitzJames was really no more than a crude pioneer compared to P. J. Asquith, also of Lowell. Asquith maintained for four brilliant years the illusion that he never went to lectures, and made his name by affecting complete indifference to all exams. He went to great lengths to obtain...
The expert Harvardman, therefore, must be practiced in Studymanship and Sexmanship. He must also be a Cultureman, steeped in the arts, high above the common herd in aesthetic sensibility. The Cultureman must have a carefully selected library including several rather seedy books, "picked up in a tiny bookstall on the...