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Contrasting with this central love affair, a pair of ultra-sophisticated demi-mondaines cross "our boy and girl's" path, yawning at each other with remarks such as, "Is this your lighter that I found under my pillow, or does it belong to Jacques?" While these two sip cognac in a fancy burlesque, "our two" gulp coffee at a sidewalk cafe. Both women call their lovers "Mon Petit." When one Mon Petit loses his duck, Napoleon, the other Mon Petit wonders why anyone would bother to put a string around a duckling's neck. This dichotomy arises often enough...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mon Petit | 11/6/1959 | See Source »

...Schroeder's lighting sometimes brings strongly to mind the image of someone in the back throwing switches at an unwontedly rapid rate; but frequently he achieves stunning effects without loss of visibility, as when Tom appears to open the play, illuminated for a moment only by his cigarette lighter...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: The Glass Menagerie | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...danger is especially acute in boarding schools like Exeter, for when the teacher lives in the same building with students and sees them a great deal outside the classroom, teaching becomes a full-time job, instead of an "hours only" occupation. In colleges where the work load is far lighter, the change in curriculum might seriously disturb the balance between research and teaching...

Author: By Stephen F. Jencks, | Title: Schools, Colleges Experiment With Full-Time Operation: Four Quarters, Summer Sessions | 10/17/1959 | See Source »

...occasion was not without its lighter moments. After the President had remarked there exist no symbols of a Master's office, newly-inaugurated John M. Bullitt '43 turned to the mural behind him and said: "We are surrounded by symbolisms." He quoted another Master as calling the painting "the death and transfiguration of a Chevrolet...

Author: By Thomas M. Pepper, | Title: Quincy Gets Master at Inaugural Dinner | 10/13/1959 | See Source »

...Phantom V, designed for "important guests and executives," with a TV set, figured French walnut woodwork and air conditioning that adjusts automatically. There was also a multifuel engine, designed for trucks and military vehicles, that Britain's Rootes Group claims will run on "anything from lighter fuel to Scotch whisky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Paris Models | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

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