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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvey Mudd's permanent faculty is young (average age: 34) and bright. Recruiting is not difficult for President Platt; in addition to the fine climate and mountain-valley site, the college pays excellent salaries and offers new faculty members the chance to spend part of their first year doing nothing but planning courses. Large areas of the new college's curriculum are still not mapped in detail, and professors meet to dovetail their separate requirements at beer-and-sandwich klatches...
Such minor worries and a mountain of large ones shadow the new college; a new science building is blueprinted, for instance, but the money is not in the bank. But President Platt speaks optimistically: "Our problem is to sustain momentum, but the idea has taken hold. The kids have been dropping back all summer long to see how the new dorm was going up, and to meet the new faculty. Cross-fertilizing the sciences and humanities is looking less like an impossibility...
...Bill's blues were the simple, freewheeling poetry of fresh-plowed earth and cotton fields and the taste of mountain whisky under a hot summer sun. His blues were the big city too, its tenements, its bread lines, and its cheap women sneaking out of a man's bed at midnight to steal his day's pay. When highbrow critics filed his blues under "folk music," Bill snorted: "Folk songs? I don't know what they is. I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing...
Under the Hood. Today in the mountain villages of New Mexico and southern Colorado, the hermanos (brothers) have 135 chapter houses called moradas, with a total membership of more than 1,200. Membership is open to all male adults, and most of the year the Penitentes seem no different from any other religious society of ardent Catholics...
...natural childbirth. He creates a picture that is dramatically first-rate even without the birth scene, puts it together with a blend of personal compassion and cinematic skill. In the almost fable-simple tale, Old Pro Jean Gabin plays a weary, health-broken physician who moves to a tiny mountain village in the South of France to live out his years. With him he brings his conviction, gained from years of work in the slums of Paris, that much of the pain and fear of childbirth can be eliminated with proper psychological and physical training. In return, he gets only...