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...beaches, rolling surf, endless winding roads. It was an environment that sang." The people sang with it. The streets of Kingston were thronged with piping vendors or politicians drumming up a vote in the lilting singsong of the islands. It was "a groovy time. I was a great night gazer. I used to climb up in a mango tree and lie back and eat mangoes and look through the leaves...
Deutscher passionately believes that Russian workers and intellectuals "are throbbing and stirring," that Russia is "relearning freedom." Often scholarly and hardheaded, Crystal-Gazer Deutscher (a Communist until he was thrown out of the party in 1932 for anti-Stalinism) is also a sentimentalist who believes that Stalinism is wrong but not Marxism. With the snobbery typical of many ex-Communists, Deutscher looks down on other ex-Communists and muses about vintage years-1921 was a good year, and Communism was still fine and heady stuff; 1932 was a bad year, because the party had begun to turn sour...
...late Robert Benchley '12 helped to produce three of the best Pudding shows: "Diane's Debut" in 1910, "The Crystal Gazer" in 1911, and "Below Zero" in 1912. "Diana's Debut", the most popular of the three, was a heavy-handed satire on Boston Society. The big song in the play had a famous line, "At Somerset, things were rather...
Starting with the National League, the light bulb gazer is faced with the Giants, Dodgers, and Braves--all powerful ball clubs with a number of well-established stars and a few shoddy spots that the stars are expected to conceal. Each could easily win the pennant, but somehow the Old Pro theory on which they operate seems passe for a well-balanced league like the National. The Dodgers were the Old Pro squad last year, but they wilted while the Giants won with a new pro, Willie Mays, and with the fresh spirit he brought. Similarly, the flag this year...
...star gazer with a serious purpose, Harlow Shapley, director of the University Observatory, will remain behind his University telescope. Shapley will conduct a study of the inner Meta galaxy and the Magellanic star clouds...