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...Kyoto's Horikawa Senior High coeducation came last October. Now, of 2,531 pupils, 1,104 are girls. None had ever studied with boys before; they went to separate, inferior schools in line with the feudal principle that boys are superior beings. "At first I was bewildered and frightened," said Reiko Yasuda, a slight, pretty eleventh-grader, "but after I got used to it I found it a challenge to try to keep up with the boys." Another coed, Yoko Kira, added: "Coeducation is very enjoyable...
Since the transaction, WBMS has gone toward the black--and, in the opinion of many of its listeners, gone downhill as well. Its programs rely heavily on the playing of short, and often inferior Rombergish selections, and are surfeited with mediocre commercials. Longer symphonic works mean less space for commercial plugs, and have therefore dropped to second place in programming. Listener reaction has been sharp: "The trouble is," says Program Director John Thornton, "that people expect a lot, and give nothing in return. When the Endowment Series was discontinued, we received over a thousand letters from our listeners...
...press agents have been billing an incredible number of films with a huge picture of the "Oscar" statue beside the title, and underneath the faint admission that the film or one of its stars has been only nominated for an Award. We have all seen how early, and frequently inferior, films in which one of this year's winners has appeared, have been brought back for re-showing with a conspicuous "Oscar" in all the advertisements. I would not mind this retroactivity in the publicity men except for the yellow taint of dishonest advertising which I can clearly...
...Americans will be prepared to accept Expatriate Eliot's dismal conclusions in which the sole ray of light is the grudging admission that Britain (which in Eliot's opinion is rapidly forgetting Christianity) may yet re-create a degree of culture by adopting "some inferior or materialistic religion...
...orchestra, although it expressed its admiration for Stravinsky loudly after each composition, betrayed little inspiration in its playing. In addition, there were several sloppy entrances; solo playing especially was inferior to B.S.O. standards. However, some of this may be attributed to the difficulty of the scores, and Stravinsky's earnest but inexpert conducting...