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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Advocate readers will be pleased to find that, at least as far as the prose goes, the November issue is a bit above average. If none of the stories has a consummate finish, all of them have some very interesting facets. The most intriguing piece is a fragment from a novel by Peter Heliczer, the story of a young man with a slightly pedantic turn. Heliczer's use of lower case letters in the e e cummings fashion seems at first merely designed to prove that the author is "modern," and that there is something strange about his story...
Jacques Offenbach, they said in Paris, certainly can cancan. But could he write serious music? He died trying to finish his one attempt, an opera with a libretto based on stories by Germany's weird. Poe-etic story spinner, E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822). The Tales of Hoffmann, first produced in 1881, four months after Offenbach's death, was a smash. The French, who wisely distrust overly sweet wines, have always had a weakness for sweet opera, and much of Hoffmann fits into the sucre fashion of Gounod's Faust, Saint-Saens' Samson et Dalila, etc. When...
...peaks of the High Sierras and speculating that it must be mighty clean up there. "Cold, too," says Jack, and goes back to laying his plans. Scripter W. R. (This Gun For Hire) Burnett still has about 30 minutes to kill before he can get around to his killing finish; so he sends Palance off on a romantic goose chase after a farmer's daughter (Lori Nelson), who has a tendency to the same high-flown appreciation of CinemaScopic nature as Shelley. "My!" Lori trills. "Isn't the air grand out here on the desert? And look...
Alden Carpenter, Bob Holmes, and Erich Segal crossed the finish line 27th, 29th, and 34th respectively out of about 50 runners. Nick Costes and Jack Kelley, both formerly from Boston University, tied for first place, but the Boston Athletic Association won the race...
...Honor. In early fall, that bowl-game prohibition seemed academic to most Southwest sportswriters. Almost to a man they picked the Aggies to finish up on the conference doormat. But Bear has been feeding the writers their prophecies ever since. After a slow start against U.C.L.A. (when they looked tough even while losing 21-0), the Aggies have been knocking over everyone in their way. Only against Arkansas did they slow down, and then they eked...