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...faculty to Lowell to sup in dinner jackets and starched shirts. The event came under heavy fire from students as being "grotesquely ridiculous," "an undemocratic display of starched laundry," and "one of the most forced and misplaced institutions ever established at Harvard." But the master at that time, Julian L. Coolidge, Class of 1895, who had been an opponent of the democratizing efforts of the House system, saw high table as a way to keep the hoi-pollai in line...
...About Edward S. Curtis and the Native Americans he photographed and filmed at the beginning of this century. With narration by Donald Sutherland and Patrick Watson. Showing with it is Thomas Edison's The Great Train Robbery (1913). The Phantom of the Opera. This must be the 1925 Rupert Julian American version with Lon Chaney and Mary Philbin (the best version), because Harkness Commons is featuring a live piano player. Too bad there can't be an organ there for the Phantom pumping away at Toccata and Fugue in the sewers under the Opera House...
Died. Sir Julian Huxley, 87, British biologist, older brother of the late novelist Aldous Huxley and grandson of Victorian Scientist-Sage Thomas Huxley; in London. Educated at Eton and Oxford, Sir Julian was an atheist and self-styled "humanist" and an astonishingly prolific writer; his 48 major books range from candid autobiography (Memories) to probing studies of evolution. As UNESCO's first director-general (1946-48), he gained widespread attention as a doomsday prophet, warning against such dangers as the population explosion and man's neglect of his environment...
...indeed the father and he insisted that there is no reliable evidence to support that assertion-and much evidence to the contrary. Dabney enlisted statements from three Jefferson historians to refute the paternity claim. He said that Dumas Malone and Merrill Peterson of the University of Virginia and Julian P. Boyd, editor of the papers of Thomas Jefferson, all agreed that the Brodie book was based on "half-truths, unwarranted assumptions and grievous misinterpretation of the known facts...
...play Lenny, written by Julian Barry, is a well-constructed, powerful piece of theater, which gives considerable insight into Lenny's life. It is based mostly on Bruce's own routines and court battles, but manages to present them with continuity. The bits themselves, carefully edited, represent the best of Lenny Bruce and capture his change in mood and brand of humor--as arrests persisted, Lenny's character became increasingly raffish, his voice increasingly strident and self-righteous, until he was trying to frighten his audience more than amuse...