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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eliot House shared the lead in soccer with Leverett, and Kirkland House provided the Bunnies' main competition in touch football. The tackle football standings found Dunster and Winthrop at the top, both undefeated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leverett Leads Touch Football, Ties With Eliot in Soccer Race | 10/23/1958 | See Source »

...main stage will be 35 feet deep with a proscenium height of 25 feet. The proscenium itself can be widened to 60 feet, while the stage house has a total height of 65 feet. Flexibility remains most important; "We have played down audience comfort and sight lines somewhat to make the auditorium more flexible," Myer commented...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: Loeb Drama Center Will Feature Small Theatre With Unique Stage | 10/21/1958 | See Source »

...extent that Felix Krull is faithful to the novel, it is a success. However, in a few instances Director Kurt Hoffman and Screenwriter Robert Thoeren apparently thought they could improve on Mann's material. They were wrong. Their main mistake is in changing Felix Krull from a calculating, unprincipled opportunist to a sort of Horatio Alger who undeservedly benefits from immoral circumstances...

Author: By Bryce E. Nelson, | Title: The Confessions of Felix Krull | 10/21/1958 | See Source »

Such humor is not inherent in the cartoon preceeding the main show and arrival ten minutes late is advisable. If the Brattle insists on showing only '"shuddering losers" as short subjects, it might better fill the time unused by the feature with a community sing. Follow the bouncing ball...

Author: By Bryce E. Nelson, | Title: The Confessions of Felix Krull | 10/21/1958 | See Source »

...colleagues and other interpreters of contemporary society, Sorokin is somewhat less generous. He has little patience for contemporary salesmen of comfortable panaceas, referring to them disparagingly as "Pollyannas of easy optimism." For his salvation from the imminent deluge, Sorokin urges, modern man must look neither to religious conversion ("mainly a cheap self-gratification for psycho-neurotics"), nor to psychoanalysis ("please regard it as the last step before suicide"), nor to changes in political leadership ("but who is going to guard the Guardians?"). The main channels are blocked. To what can man turn...

Author: By Mark L. Krupnick, | Title: Prophet | 10/15/1958 | See Source »

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