Word: hummed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hum 1, "The Experience of Literature," which will replace both Hum 3 and Hum 7, will be "like a walk through a statue gallery, and the statuary will be both the authors and the professors," John H. Finley, Jr. '24, chairman of the Committee on General Education, said yesterday...
...Hum 1 will be divided into several two or three week segments during which different professors will lecture on individual authors. In the first semester, lecturers will probably include Cedric H. Whitman '38, professor of Greek and Latin, on Homer; Finley on Sophocles; Wilbur M. Frohock, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, on Rabelais; Bullit on Cervantes; and Harry T. Levin '23, Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature, on Shakespeare...
Finley noted yesterday that Hum 1 "had everything but the kitchen stove in it. It's impossible to get people to take up the White Man's Burden" and teach lower-level Humanities courses alone, Finley explained, and therefore, the Committee had devised this "vaudeville performance." Nonetheless, he said he has great hopes for the new course...
...sites are carefully zoned and restricted to prevent what Darlington refers to as "creeping urbanization." Creeping cuteness has already engulfed the development, which boasts such street names as Languid Lane and Nonchalant Road. Ho Hum Drive separates into Ho Street and Hum Street. The bank is on Wampum Way. The main drag, naturally, is Easy Street...
Music will be by Igor Stravinsky and script by Christopher Fry. It will be filmed in full-color Cinerama, and the stars include Peter O'Toole, Marlon Brando, Paul Newman and Maria Callas, who won't sing but might "hum a little." Still feeling that a bit more bounce is needed for The Bible, Director John Huston, 57, has added his bibulous knight of the Iguana, Richard Burton, to either narrate or play (but not raise) Cain. Did that mean Liz Taylor would also join the cast? Absolutely not, quoth Huston. "Perhaps there may be something...