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...great natural performer, something on the scale of Niagara Falls." That assessment of Tenor Lauritz Melchior by Metropolitan Opera Assistant Manager Francis Robinson is hardly hyperbole. When he died last week two days before his 83rd birthday, Melchior's gargantuan talents and zest for life were firmly established in opera's hagiography...
Lindzey was imported only this year to head the gargantuan Department of Psychology and Social Relations, combined by Faculty vote last Spring. His recent entrance into the Cambridge scene is considered a drawback to his candidacy, but it is believed offset by his extensive administrative experience at the Universities of Texas and Minnesota...
...chasing flapper. The characters had little appeal for Depression audiences, so Young married the two in 1933, eventually gave them a son and daughter and all the trappings of middle-class life. Dagwood evolved into the harried family man who sought solace in the simple joys of hot baths, gargantuan sandwiches and surreptitious naps on the living room couch; Blondie was his loyal but slightly scramble-witted better half. The central cast and simple plots of Blondie remained virtually unchanged for decades, inspired 28 movies and a TV series, and earned Young $300,000 a year in royalties...
Economics is typical of the monster departments. History, Government and English are also gargantuan, and something over half of all upperclassmen can be found in one of these four fields. No matter how many esoteric courses can be found in the course catalogue, with students grouped in so few departments there is plenty of reason to doubt that they are sampling the liberal arts widely...
...time that the departments of this gargantuan elite University (all of some 10,000 students) at least got coordinated about the date when financial aid applicants must apply and when departmental teaching job offers are offered? (One can well imagine the callous, un-sportsmanlike efficiency with which the large "state universities" of 50,000 strong might handle these problems...