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...Mistress...
...colleges, of course, but it is still hard to make a "Dear John" letter sound like anything else. After studying Yale's affiliation proposal (TIME, Dec. 30, 1966) for nearly a year, Vassar's trustees last week declined marriage, preferring to remain, as they put it, "mistress in our own house." Moaned the New Haven campus daily: "Yale's gentlemen suitors have been jilted. All we can do is take it like men." President Kingman Brewster Jr., sounded manful enough when he noted tersely that the decision was a "disappointment...
...Trustees of Vassar College voted yesterday to reject the proposed merger of Vassar with Yale because, as one Trustee said, of "our desire to be mistress in our own house...
...Malaysia, only to find that his son and daughter have become neoprimitive natives of swinging England. His daughter (Margaret Linn) is complacently pregnant-by whom, she cannot be sure. His bearded guitar-laden son (Sam Waterston) looks "like a leftover from the Last Supper," and his so-called mistress is a breastless, hipless, bass-voiced androgyne. Ultimately, the general goes his filial foes one better at anarchic nonconformity by growing a beard himself, living in a tree and mastering the guitar. The quality of the humor is as strained as the plot. Ustinov seems to have aped Bernard Shaw without...
...finest story, The Fault of M. Balzac, Maurois brings the full weight of irony crashing down on a brilliant but ambitious scholar. "A really distinguished mistress would spare me ten years of setbacks and sordid intrigue," says Lecadieu. He gets one, a politician's wife. He also gets caught. Exiled from Paris, forced to marry a worn-out woman, he ends up a wreck teaching Latin texts to schoolboys. He can't even remember what his ambition...