Word: meetings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With its prolixity and banal poetizing, The Great God Brown is as heavy with fog as it is lacking in flesh. Opening its seventh season with so tough a challenge, the Phoenix Theater could not meet it in production. As the best way of sustaining interest, Director Stuart Vaughan makes use of the stylized and the histrionic. Now and then, the tricks are vivid, but the gaudy orchestration only stresses the hollowness of the music...
Housecleaning? One way to nail the schools is to insist on residence requirements; the proprietors would run if any student showed up to meet his teachers. New York and Arkansas, which require one year of residence for a correspondence-school degree, are little plagued by the problem. In contrast, easygoing Colorado, Delaware and Indiana are hangouts for fake schools with a thriving trade in India, Pakistan, Burma and Egypt...
...seduces a 15-year-old convent girl, then begins a violent affair with the beautiful nun who is her French teacher-fittingly enough, because she is also the mistress of the French ambassador. And so it goes. Yet he has not altogether forgotten Henriette. Years later, they will meet again. By that time she will be fat and Casanova feeble. As Havelock Ellis pointed out, the same women appear again and again in the Memoirs; it is perhaps a mark of the true Casanova that he can stay friends with his former mistresses...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences will meet tomorrow to consider the Committee on Educational Policy's proposal to urge the Corporation not to use NDEA loan funds until the "disclaimer" loyalty affidavit is removed from the Act. At other universities, governing boards have ended their institutions' participation after similar faculty actions...
After entering Throckmorton Hall, he headed for the punch bowl. Punch can make or break a mixer, he chuckled to an acquaintance he happened to meet. But Dudley soon slid away from the conversation, straightened his tie, adjusted his Sunday School pin--conversation piece, Dudley called it--and headed into the thick of the dance floor. At most mixers he had had fun overhearing conversations or talking with the boys in Ruby Newman's Band, but tonight was to be different. Dudley tapped the shoulder of a fellow who was dancing with a rather attractive girl, the type you like...