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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once Upon a Mattress (book by Jay Thompson, Marshall Barer, Dean Fuller; music by Mary Rodgers; dances by Joe Layton) is a cocktail-hour version of the children's-hour fairy story, The Princess on the Pea. The princess, as every pre-TV schoolchild recalls, is a lady so sensitive that she can feel a pea through a great thickness of mattresses, thereby passes the test of royalty and may marry the prince. Mattress' bookmakers offer odds that there was more to this yam than met the eye of Hans Christian Andersen. Apart from the boob-catching title...
...sweetheart ("A square thing, but it happens to be the truth"), and was overwhelmed by the poetry of Robinson Jeffers. His other literary landmarks: D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover and Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer. "They were the crystallizing books of my pre-Catholic formation," says Brother Antoninus. "They have a kind of terrible vitality that enabled me to strip the merely conventional away and expose my soul so that when the moment of faith actually came, I was free within myself to make the act of faith...
...over, his marriage on the rocks, he joined the group of creative and not-so-creative bums around Poet Kenneth Rexroth that began the "San Francisco renaissance." before Beatniks Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg came out from Manhattan and put the movement in the news. "I'm pre-beat," says Brother Antoninus...
Piatigorsky, despite his three losses as number one on the unbeaten freshman team, "has the strokes," according to freshman coach Corey Wynn, to become a major collegiate star, and Woodbury is not far behind him. Schwartzman, ranked seventh on the pre-season ladder, was burdened with laboratory commitments and could only play doubles in a few matches this year; if he has more time next spring, he could help a lot, while Smith, improving steadily, was playing at number eight by the end of the year...
...items in Oppenheimer's past should disqualify him for such an honor, Veritas claimed: his pre-war Communist associations, and an admitted lie to Government investigators. This second point dominated the anti-Oppenheimer campaign. With heavy logic, Veritas drummed away at the charge that a proved liar was coming to lecture on ethics "to the young students at Harvard." As a matter of fact, ethics had nothing to do with Oppenheimer's lecture series, which dealt with the philosophical implications of modern science...