Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...THERE ARE OTHER things in life beside sex and booze," wails Belle Bottom midway through the first act of Bottoms Up. "Yeah, but try to name one fast," her father Rock Bottom retorts. The level of punning never gets much higher than clinkers like the protagonists' names, so you had better find a little delight in Rock's old-fashioned cynicism. And if you'll buy, even for one night, the fragile premise that liquor and screwing are the soul of a good time, the 121st Hasty Pudding Show just may seem a delight rather than a fleece...
...smasher gets roaring drunk, but this particular show extends its faithfulness to formula a bit too far. Individual lines like "you boys couldn't flatten out a wrinkled postage stamp" ring a little hollow. I wondered during the first act whether the show would stoop to the Beach Party level of repartee with one character emphatically commenting "You can say that again," and his buddy really saying it again. It was there all right, a little dressed up, but dismally there all the same. Of course part of the fun is scavenging--a line from Casablanca, a scene from...
...informal meeting Monday night, the nine Masters told Von Stade to "think some more" about his original proposal to make freshman Spring term parietals equal to those in the Houses. Von Stade said yesterday that his proposal will be to extend freshman Spring parietals "somewhere up to" that level...
...first-time parietals violations will be dealt with on the House level...
...Encourage as far as possible cooperative work among first-year students and a decrease in the level of tension...