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...wield magic. Randall's djinni happens to be Burl Ives, who complicates a routine romantic farce by conjuring up slaves, seneschals, dromedaries, elephants, a shapely blue djinniyeh (Kamala Devi) and a tonic belly dancer (LuLu Porter). Soon, of course, Randall has to explain all the whimsical phenomena to his fiancée, Barbara Eden. This chore convinces him that nothing that comes out of the Bottle is worth what goes into it. He's quite right too. Audiences may choose to stay home where they can rub their television sets and hope for a miracle...
...wish to introduce a central demarcation within it....We see the proposed Humanities area as a spectrum, spanning history, literature, and art. Far from introducing a break within this spectrum, we wish to place the weight of innovation precisely at the middle point where previously separated phenomena may now come together. The extremes will remain: a broadly conceived survey of Western history stressing economic phenomena should be no less welcome than a course in drama and the epic. Both examine vital aspects of our civilization's development and of the culture we inherit from that development. But we hope that...
...Humanities and Social Sciences sections of the existing General Education Program. There is, however, a special challenge facing those who would construct courses at the center of the spectrum in this area, where literature and art, ideas and beliefs, may be seen in conjunction with social and political phenomena...
...foundations) see his movies unless they come to his studio in San Francisco for private screenings. His work is a brilliant arrangement of patterns of music, light, and color, a world of flashing pinpoints, symmetrical dots and fiery globes. "There is a crucible into which all phenomena can be resolved," says Belson. "If any medium can accomplish this, I am convinced it will be the film. My work penetrates deeper. It opens the doors to a universe that isn't even considered by people working in the medium...
...thunder and lightning which accompanied the snow storm is a rarity that occurs only once every three or four years, according to Alan F. Cook II, Lecturer on Astronomy. These phenomena, usually associated with summer storms, were caused by unusually violent vertical wind motions resulting from large temperature differences among the layers of the atmosphere, according to Cook...