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Throughout the early jazz flourish Harvard University revealed a sort of tin ear for syncopated sound. Even with the music inundating Boston, one of America's finer jazz towns, Harvard had failed to pick up the beat. It failed, that is, until University band director Tom Everett organized the Harvard jazz band three years ago. Since its inception, the band has provided a home for lonesome jazz men and big band enthusiasts. Within the last year it has shown admirable skill on the local mixer circuit, and at occasional concerts for other schools...
...miles west of Boston, a medical school in Worcester and a total enrollment of nearly 30,000 students. Indeed, as long as there were students and money enough to go round, the powerful and influential private universities in Massachusetts did not object to seeing their public step sister flourish with state funding. Now,faced with a dwindling supply of students and costs that have pushed their tuition charges alone to $3,000 and more, the "privates" can no longer watch with equanimity as the "publics" siphon off students at a mere $300 a head-the basic tuition charge...
...that everyone knows what a House is for, President Abbott Lawrence Lowell's statement of the Houses' purpose used to be reprinted in each year's catalogue. It said they were meant to mix undergraduates of "different classes, types and early associations." "Contacts, good talk, wide range of friendships flourish when men live in a community," Lowell continued. He didn't say what he thought of the contacts or the talk in University Hall...
Last Tango in Paris. "A movie that people will be arguing about for as long as there are movies. Bernardo Bertolucci and Marlon Brando have altered the face of an art form." Well. Pauline Kael started it all with these words, and it was inevitable that parody would flourish to a point where Buchwald could talk of a dumb movie about the Parisian housing shortage and two apartment-hunters who find a rundown flat and spend a lot of time rolling around trying to measure it for a carpet. But it's not typical for anyone to skip joyously unaffected...
...breeches that are the cliches of rococo chinaware decoration were largely Boucher's doing. He painted on fans and carriage doors, snuffboxes, escritoires and ostrich eggs. And when Louis XV put Boucher in control of the state tapestry factories at Beauvais and Gobelin, he brought about the last flourish of grand-scale European weaving. No designer since Boucher has managed to raise tapestry to that pitch of worldly exuberance and erotic charm...