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...League attempt to create a closely knit football league may well be the second step toward an eventual break with the National Collegiate Athletic Association...
...Lowell's major achievement was not in providing for a student's academic activities; it was Lowell who pushed through the House system that knit undergraduate Harvard into a social whole. Before the houses, there was tremendous difference between the wealthy and the poor, the prep school and the high school alumni. Students on the Gold Coast kept valets; those living in the Yard stoked furnaces...
...seated in a hieratic U pattern with the high-fidelity player and the master's chair at the open end of the U. All talk is hushed as Kinsey picks up the first record and announces why he thinks it worth playing. The ladies may knit with muted needles, but there is not another sound until the record is ended. While the music is on, Kinsey eyes his guests to see whether they catch the nuances of a fine performance. Between numbers, and at a sherbet and cake intermission, there is no idle chatter-only the point-counterpoint...
...works). His fiscal foundation: scoring an occasional Hollywood film. Besides writing crackerjack scores for such movies as Specter of the Rose, The Sniper, The Juggler, In a Lonely Place, Antheil admits that he is quietly fostering a reputation as a musical medicine man who can pull a loosely knit film together by music alone. "If I say so myself," he says, "I've saved a couple of sure flops." Since he has no wish to be tagged as a "Hollywood composer," he limits himself to two pictures a year...
...tightly knit, nor is the Crown so powerful, as the Empire that Disraeli proclaimed for Victoria, adding the jewel of India to her crown. Ireland and Burma have broken completely free. The countries formerly called dominions today prefer to be called by the less-subservient name "realm." Six of them (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Pakistan, Ceylon and South Africa) recognize Elizabeth as their own individual Queen as well as Queen of the Commonwealth, but three of these (Ceylon, Pakistan and South Africa) do not accept her as Defender of the Faith. The seventh realm, India, is a republic, and does...