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Your excellent editorial on the pointless inconsistency of the House-Graduate Center Parietal Regulations omitted one important point. The residents of the outside dormitories; Claverly, Dudley, and Apley, are all upperclassmen, but still are held subject to Freshmen Parietal Rules. Surely these unfortunates deserve at least the same entertainment privileges as their brethren in the Houses. Since there are no superintendents in these halls, the Adams House plan of check in and out cards deposited in boxes, to be inspected by the Yard Police on their rounds, could be easily put into operation. Herbert Levin...
Grabbing our baggage, we started off along the river bank, hoping that we could find some boat that might take us across. Finally, we decided that it was pointless to attempt to find boats during the night and in our weakened condition. We headed toward a KMAG housing area on Seoul's outskirts. It was then about three. Inside the abandoned U.S. military reservation it was quiet except for the boom of guns and heavy mortars in the distance. We found one house with a light still burning inside...
...Connecticut Yankee inventor of a newfangled cigarette-making machine, Cooper ruins Tycoon Crisp, marries his spirited daughter and displays his growing ruthlessness by flexing his jaw muscles and compressing his lip. Along the way are all the standard climaxes-street fights, a shooting, a suicide, fires, foreclosures and pointless lovers' quarrels. At the end, discovering that power corrupts and that none of his old friends, not even Madame Bacall, finds him lovable any more, Cooper morosely mounts his horse and rides away into the sunset...
...amazing coincidences, leads him to break his engagement, quit his job, marry the murdered man's widow (Teresa Wright) and set out to clear the dead man's name. He is soon involved in a second murder, causes a suicide, and gets mixed up in a somewhat pointless chase sequence, in which he finally manages to salve his conscience just as the Mexican police are closing...
Like many French pictures, "A Royal Affair" has an abundance of feasting and dancing, and a generally sunny atmosphere. Although some scenes are slow and rather pointless, others are rapid-fire and glittering. The songs are familiar and derivative with one exception, that sung by the king's new-found mistress and his secret-service agent...