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...happened, the lunch never came off. and De Vries, like a character in one of his novels (Comfort Me with Apples, The Mackerel Plaza. The Tunnel of Love), was left wistfully savoring the sour cream of the jest. This touch of rueful, pun-prone phantasmagoria has made 49-year-old Peter De Vries the leading comic geographer of commuterland. Humorist De Vries surveys his world with the wacky vision of a man who has inadvertently put on the wrong pair of glasses...
...What do emeritus professors do? They lie in the sun and drink." Thus retired member of the faculty jokingly described his occupation as he thumbed through the galley proofs of his recently completed book. The jest was obvious. Many people who look forward to retirement from the business world desire a period of inactivity, and a life of comfortable leisure. This, for the most part, is not true in the academic world...
Complaints about the House system almost invariably begin, either in jest or seriousness, with the restriction of parietal hours. The Student Council understandably polled the students two weeks ago in an attempt to discover how much sentiment really exists for proposed changes...
...with "extreme partisanship" as Ambassador to Italy. He attacked her "relationship to TIME, LIFE and FORTUNE," declaimed about the "intertwining of Luce policy and Eisenhower policy in conducting the vital affairs of the U.S." Morse even suggested that a TIME story quoting an anonymous U.S. official's rueful jest about dividing up Bolivia-a quote in TIME'S Latin American edition that was used as provocation for riots in Bolivia (TIME, March 16)-was a sinister attempt to cater to Brazilian designs on Bolivian territory...
...Rinzler's direction left much to be desired. A play such as this requires imagination, subtlety, and a sense for absurdity which his staging lacked. The pacing was poor, and the blocking did nothing more than to solve the problem of a large cast on a small stage. The jest of funny characterizations soon wore thin, and nothing was done to sustain interest as the play wore...