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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...

Author: By Richard Cotton, | Title: New Gen Ed Courses Planned for 1964-65 | 2/10/1964 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Ah! Wilderness | 2/7/1964 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 24, 1964 | 1/24/1964 | See Source »

...over a splendor of blue marble columns, blackamoor statuary, yellow silk furniture, and sepia photographs of ancestors. Every other weekend there is a golf match or a shoot in woods that have recently been restocked with pheasant. The parties at Ferrières, which once awed Kaiser Wilhelm, now hum to brittle conversation and shine with the high fashion of an international society that mixes people of achievement with outsiders of the jet set. Guests have included French Premier Georges Pompidou (who was director general of de Rothschild Frères under his good friend Guy until 1962), former Premier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Western Europe: New Elan in an Old Clan | 12/20/1963 | See Source »

...give "that kind of allegiance just to a college." Dissenters refuse to rise and sing because "your blanket falls off." Princeton hearts pound at Old Nassau, but Princeton mouths go da di da. Even Georgia Tech's "ramblin' wrecks" sing to the Alma Mater in a vast hum, as of bees. South Benders "cheer, cheer for old Notre Dame," but the sacred second line comes out, "You take the Notre, I'll take the Dame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: Hail to Thee-- Er ... Da Di Da | 12/13/1963 | See Source »

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