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...Arlene Francis) is a middle-aged housewife- romantic despondent, full of vague aspirations', and a bit of a nit - who doesn't know whether to put her faith in Freud or Betty Fnedan. She is carrying on an illicit affair with an Italian-American sex mechanic (Robert Forster) who is young enough to be her son. She tries to inoculate the boy with culture by drooling John Donne to him, but he is a resolutely monosyllabic nobrow...
Seized by Carols. Working with a team of acoustical engineers, Wisconsin's Dr. Francis M. Forster and his colleagues determined just what songs, just what instruments, just what rhythms caused Morton to have an epileptic seizure. Hooked up to an electroencephalograph, their patient listened to music with one ear, with the other, and then with both. He listened to a random noise generator with one ear while music was piped to the other. Stardust played on the organ produced no abnormalities; Glenn Miller's orchestrated version touched off fits. Hymns and Christmas carols played by an orchestra...
...illustrious line of British colonial fiction may have arrived at parade's end with this trilogy of short novels about the last days of British rule in Malaya; Britain has no place to send another Kipling, Maugham, Forster, Greene or Waugh. Author Burgess' witness to the waning of the imperial day is Victor Crabbe, a teacher in a multiracial prep school solemnly modeled by its British founders after Eton and Harrow (Burgess himself served for three years as an education officer in Malaya). Bemusedly, Crabbe sees that the system is crumbling, but the snobbery is not. Malays hate...
...practical labor are meager. The now-defunct Hon. Robert Treat Paine Prize rewarded the best original investigation plus "practical conclusions" of some form of charity work. However, an essay on "The Special Phase of the Labor Question" could be substituted for first-hand investigation. The radicalism of E. M. Forster's reformers was soothed by John Ruskin's writings; The Harvard radical who wants a prize can write an essay on John Ruskin. The Boston Ruskin Club pays $145 for the best...
...proposal is adopted, Dartmouth would come closest to an ungraded curriculum in the Ivy League. But the faculty, which is now split about fifty-fifty, is not likely to give Forster the large mandate he considers essential for the change...