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...called the Village Voice, which has served as the bottle from which the comic genie Jules Feiffer was launched upon a small but highly appreciative world. There are other good things in the bottle, but so far only Feiffer, whose cartoons continue to appear there weekly, has risen from oblivion to the Voice and then directly to paperback publication, autograph-signing tours of college bookstores, and a considerable degree of personal fame...
...article in the College Board Review, King asks, "Have the financial arms of the CEEB colleges been pulling hidden talent from oblivion or have we just been lifting candidates from each other's back pockets?" King goes on to point out that by far the majority of scholarship applicants at Harvard and equivalent colleges are students who will go to college somewhere else if they are denied aid. "I would be reasonably certain," King writes, "that at no College Scholarship Service college do as many as half the scholarship winners come from the neediest half of our nation's population...
...Holberg's The Healing Spring is under the tutelage of Mr. Hancock again. He has laid unholy hands on it, which was a good idea, since it has one of those comic opera plots which are usually best left to Mozart or Rossini or the Comedie Francaise or oblivion. Mr. Hancock has moved it--by the scruff of the neck--to southern California, and changed the characters to modern types. None of these types is original. Most of them, oddly enough, are very funny. The hero is portrayed as the sort of healthy youth who hung around with Superboy...
...among students are obviously not powerful enough reasons to scrap the draft. It has been suggested that Congress renew the act only for a two-year period and appoint a special committee to report on the inequities of the present laws, but even this moderate suggestion seems fated to oblivion...
...steel-helmeted troops fanning out through a tense capital in the fateful hours before dawn. For 1958 was another year when men from Caracas to Khartoum lost patience with the established order, a year when nations abruptly smashed familiar institutions and sent their onetime idols off to political oblivion ? or violent death...