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...cast did its best with a baffling array of polyglot lines ("Good morning, caro Signor Jack O'Brien!"), but when it came to singing "Worst of all, Benares is said to have been perished by an earthquake," the chorus sensibly defected. "Guarda qua Benares, è state messa giù da un terremoto," sang the mutineers, leaving American Mezzo Gloria Lane to go it alone in English...
...BURT HASEN, 42, is one of a wave of artists backed by the GI Bill, spawned by the New York Art Students League, formed by Hans Hofmann's school (one classmate: Larry Rivers), and matured in Paris. He now teaches at New York's School of Visual Art. Hasen calls his paintings Proustian; his remembrance of things past expresses itself in hundreds of little pictures...
Boring finds the times have produced undergraduates enormously different from the kind he knew when he first came here. "The change came about in the forties, when there were enormous social changes. We faculty were scared about the GI Bill of Rights. But when the students flooded in, there was a sudden stiffening of intellectual interest; the gentleman's C became a thing of the past. But it's obvious it wasn't just the GI Bill of Rights; it has something to do with the population explosion...
...problem of overcrowding goes back to the 1940's, when students and ox-GI's returning to Harvard swelled the size of the undergraduate body, forcing the College to take emergency housing measures...
...testing the prisoners' food one day, an inspecting sergeant found that the P.O.W.'s were eating better than American privates, and Fricker was immediately requisitioned for the GI's kitchen. A Captain stopped in one day to test his soldiers' fare, and Fricker was promptly promoted to the officer's mess...