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...perpetually be supplied by countervailing forces from the outside? The CRIMSON proposal, which predictably we think far from trivial, would try to set in motion pressures within departments to allow students to substitute some other program of study for the thesis in cases where the thesis threatens to become hollow and unprofitable. Perhaps Mr. Jones' gloomy guess is correct; perhaps the attempt to pry departments loose from their rigid and almost mystical commitment to the thesis is founded on an empty optimism. But reform of the senior year has clearly reached the point where it must be effected within...
Nijinsky & James Dean. In London and on the Continent, the only classical male dancer who can match Nureyev's popularity is Denmark's Erik Bruhn. Pale, hollow-cheeked and shaggy-haired, Nureyev radiates a kind of savage excitement that he himself describes as a "mixture of tenderness and brutality." It has prompted comparisons with Nijinsky and even with the late actor James Dean, hero of the beatniks. Unfortunately for the Royal Ballet, Nureyev is like Dean in another respect: he is as complex and difficult an animal offstage as he is on. After giving a superb performance opposite...
Technically, the postwar Grand Guignol was as good as ever. First-rate viscera were made from red rubber hose and sponges soaked in blood. Hand bulbs squirted blood through a hollow in the spoons that gouged out victims' eyes. The blood really curdled. It came in nine shades, and was mixed daily by Director Nonon...
Died. Howard Roger Garis, 89, creator of a kindly, top-hatted rabbit named Uncle Wiggily as an extra assignment from his police beat on the Newark (N.J.) Evening News in 1909, who went on to write 200 children's books of the bunny's adventures in Hollow Stump with Fuzzy Wuzzy Nurse Jane and Dr. Possum that sold more than 5,000,000 copies; of leukemia; in Northampton, Mass...
Essentially, this foursome does not slaughter sacred cows but slyly milks them for irreverent merriment. The irreverence extends to God, Shakespeare, Harold Macmillan, nuclear defense, bombs A-through-H. international relations, race relations, the Battle of Britain, the royal family, hale and hollow clergymen, logical positivism, concert singers and pianists, capital punishment, and buyers of pornographic books. British dithering and deadpanning account for as many laughs in these skits as the lines themselves, but plenty of verbal darts...