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...scene to gladden even the most jaded cruise director. The open-air movie was filled to capacity with a bronzed, relaxed audience. In the swimming pool near by, energetic types were splashing away at water polo. From the "Bikini" bar came the clink of glasses and the hum of bar babble, and in the soft glow cast by indirect neon lighting, palm leaves fluttered...
Whatever the reason, Columbia has one set of listeners singing along in earnest-its competitors at RCA Victor. By last week, Victor had three imitations in the stores, lavish albums lined with paper that looks like the kind used for $20 bills. Hum and Strum Along with Chet Akins, the Robert Shaw Chorale's Stephen Foster Song Book, and Words and Music with the Ames Brothers include booklets giving not only the words but also piano or ukulele and guitar chords...
Died. Dr. Morton Charles Kahn, 63, adventurous bacteriologist who tramped through the jungles of South America on numerous expeditions to study tropical diseases, developed (1948) a trap that could destroy 1,500 malaria-bearing mosquitoes a day (a recording of the hum of the female mosquito lures the males from miles around to an electrified screen that kills them on contact); of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Thus among the countless traumas a freshman may fall heir to an agonizing struggle in Hum 5 or Phil 1 with Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Theology is certainly one of the most severe; many a small town has lost its most promising Methodist in those ordeals--and for one reason or another, Anglicans defect at the rate of one out of every four. Freud's Moses and Monotheism or The Future of an Illusion must provoke nearly equal distress: one atheist passes up all alternatives listed on the questionnaire and writes, "God is man's interpretation of what dissatisfies...
...literature and philosophy in the humanities illustrate what might be offered--area syntheses as have been suggested for possible non-honors group tutorial. Such seminars--which could be taught by teaching fellows with occasional discussions led by professors--should not serve as introductions to the departments (as for example Hum. 6 does at present) or be overly specialized. Although presumably requiring a higher level of work, they should preserve the Big Question goal of General Education...