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...might have shocked the censors is its gay freedom from what most of America considers fairly absolute morals--a count and his wife, for example, bet each other, as part of the dinner table conversation at a party, that the wife cannot seduce the man on his right in fifteen minutes (the same man, incidentally, whom the Count recently met in his--the Count's--nightshirt at the house of their mutual mistress); they bet; the woman later turns out to have won--and in eight minutes, not fifteen. Good for Boston. Cultural relativism. Moral perspectives. Jolly good...
...hook on Communist China, based on a six-week visit in 1955, at the expense of the Chinese government. The author of two excellent (and appropriately titled) novels, She Came to Stay (TIME, March 15, 1954) and The Mandarins (TIME, May 28, 1956), was not alone: "There were some fifteen hundred of us [foreign] delegates roaming the length and breadth of China." But Author de Beauvoir seems to have got around on her own a good deal and to have seen a nation that, if her account could be credited, would seem to be by far the happiest and justest...
Fielding possibly its weakest team of the year, the varsity rugby fifteen stands only small chance of scoring its fourth consecutive win over Yale tomorrow...
...general, the new educational policy will have honors candidates take two years of tutorial for credit and schedule only fourteen formal courses instead of the present fifteen. The greater emphasis placed on tutorial work is an encouraging move; but, with only fourteen courses in which to satisfy distribution requirements and accumulate enough required knowledge for general examinations, the able student considering course reduction might be fearful of dropping a further course...
...addition to an advantage in size, the Tiger fifteen had the benefit of practice gained in six games this season, while the Crimson had previously played only one. The second teams ended their games...