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Overall, the Lowell House's production of the Magic Flute is long, but fun. Starting late and running a bit over three-and-one-half hours, Thursday night's productions had quite a few pitfalls (including what amounted to over half-an-hour of set moving!) which just could not be righted by the few winning performances it produced. Spend five dollars instead and go see Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman's 1976 version of The Magic Flute--definitely more vocal magic for your money...
...demonstrators occupied the university offices half-an-hour after the start of a rally called to protest the expulsion of Michael Albert- the president of M.I.T.'s. Undergraduate Association- and the placing of two other students on probation for their roles in demonstrations at M.I.T. last fall...
...Freshman wonders why the examination proctors marked the time he left the exam on his blue book and his tutor thought about the same practice, condemned it, and then was annoyed when a marking informed him that a student left the exam half-an-hour early. A professor wonders why his best student entered law school and a business school student wonders why Littauer students won't talk to him. And a grad student wonders if his parents will ask why he hasn't gotten his Ph.D...
...first phone call to the dormitory warned that a bomb would go off in half-an-hour, but the girl who received the call brushed it off as a joke. Fifteen minutes later the same person called again, and House president Julie Farrelly '57, answered...
...Housemasters decided on uniform 9 p.m. permissions for Saturday night. This rule, however, did not work, since the formal dances began at 8:30 and bands were playing to empty houses for half-an-hour...