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...Green of the London Observer, even managed to praise and condemn the same tour. In the program notes, which he wrote, Green found Brubeck's appeal "to the casual listener as well as to the specialist" to be "one of the most important assets any jazz musician can possess today." In his newspaper column Green grumped that "the quartet is so markedly deficient in certain essential jazz qualities that its popularity can hardly be regarded as a success for jazz at all." Pianist Brubeck was understandably irritated but not unduly worried. His success proved, he said, not that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Successful Failure | 12/15/1961 | See Source »

Students still possess great freedom to voice publicly their complaints; but this fall in face-to-face meetings with the deans students have been blocked in attempts to discuss issues that may embarrass the Administration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Debate and the Deanery | 12/15/1961 | See Source »

...Levine), like its zero of a hero, is a political animal that tries to be all things to all men and winds up nobody's nothing, a self-laid goose egg. Yet in its failure this inexpensive ($400,000) British movie exerts a quiet fascination that few pictures possess in success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Political Animal | 12/8/1961 | See Source »

Simultaneously the Radcliffe administration has urged activities to have females leaving the building after 11 p.m. escorted to Radcliffe dormitories. The front door of the Center will be open now until 3:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m. as before; activities heads possess keys to the building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ACTIVITIES PARIETALS | 12/4/1961 | See Source »

...this one has come to expect from the G & S Players; they possess the singular ability of fashioning entertainment out of dull nineteenth-century spoofs. But because of the ridiculously large number of playlets that Gilbert and Sullivan wrote, they can only occasionally hit upon an operetta that has any humor of its own. Iolanthe, happily, is such an operetta: W.S. Gilbert, for once, lampooned a group he actually knew by sight--instead of pirates and Japanese--and the result, coupled with Sir Arthur's magnificent mock-hymns, was a grandly devastating jibe at the Victorian Establishment. Peers sweep around...

Author: By Anthony Hiss, | Title: Iolanthe | 12/2/1961 | See Source »

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