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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feelies-movies in which audiences could not only hear and see, but feel the clinches-were a major diversion in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, the Utopian state where people were not born but mass-produced in retorts and female yearnings for motherhood were assuaged by a quick shot of "pregnancy substitute." The only utopia currently available for study is not up to feelies yet, but it is ready to report progress. Last week, Russian Movie Director Grigory Alexandrov announced that the Soviet film industry was on the verge of producing smellies. Said he: "We want to look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFLECTIONS: The Smellies | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...thing, the Crimson has been on a four-match Southern trip, and was able to work in a week of extra practice. This was a major factor in its recent victory ever Clark, but Dartmouth has also spent Eastern vacation in Dixie. The Green won a match and lost a match to Georgetown, which boat Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ruggers Meet McGill Today; Golfers play Green | 4/16/1949 | See Source »

Because of the complete inactivity of region, there is no history on which to base any predictions for future tremors, Leet said. "But frequently major earth-quakes are followed by after-shocks. These are considerably smaller and take place because the earth has to return to its former state," he stated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Quake Expert Says Tremor Was First in Region | 4/15/1949 | See Source »

...false alarm from the fire-box next to the Lampoon building brought an eight-piece armada of the Cambridge Fire Department to the CRIMSON building at 14 Plympton Street at 8:40 p.m. last night in search of a major conflagration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chief 'Poonster Praises False Alarm; Crimson Fails to Burn | 4/15/1949 | See Source »

There is one major defect in this album: John Finnegan '47 is not so good an arranger as Leroy Anderson '29. This becomes obvious when the "Serenade for the Blue' is compared with the old Yale medley. Unfortunately, most of the new medleys are Finnegan's, which makes for a uniformity of form, cadence, and orchestration that is unfortunate at the least...

Author: By Charles W. Balley, | Title: The Music Box | 4/14/1949 | See Source »

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