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...helium. The stars-at least those within the telescope's field-had been measured, studied, divided into classes. The galaxies, those vast swirls of stars out in distant space, had also been measured and classified. There were new theories too, and good ones, but no general theory to knit things together. This was because (as Hoyle explains disarmingly) there was no one with enough knowledge imagination and daring to do the formidable...
Professors are resigned to the fate of watching men take notes and girls knit. Certain men such as Earnest A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology, admit that women in class have caused them to alter their styles slightly, but they are proceeding in quiet submission...
Reading your two-page spread on Columbia makes me feel a little skeptical of the value of the closely-knit Ivy League. There is no doubt that what the Ivy League really stands for--scholarship--is unsurpassed by any group of colleges in these United States. But it is also true that there appears to be a breach in the union of these colleges. Some three or four of the better-known Ivy League schools have come to look down on the other member colleges. This "looking down" is something more and beyond mere rivalry; it is more...
Original and perceptive camera work helps to knit together "Thunder Rock's" disorganized incidents; so does some unobtrusive and sensitive music. And the flashbacks themselves are wonderfully paced and staged and acted, showing the careful attention to detail that has turned up in so many subsequent English films. Michael Redgrave, Lilli Palmer, James Mason, and the whole group of minor characters are mutually responsible for the fine quality of the acting. "Thunder Rock" has an unhappy pre-disposition to preach, but it is so well-finished that it gets away with...
...after the game in the lounge at Yale's Lapham Field House. The Elis had just routed Brown by the score of 36 to 12 and Tennessee's gift to the Ivy League was disturbed. He loosened a J. Press blue knit tie and continued...