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...free to use the movies any way they see fit; the fifth grade's Mrs. Blanche Brack says film producers have been "horrified" at the way teachers have been "messing about with their creation." She prefers to show fragments of many films, repeatedly stopping the action to quiz the kids on what they just saw, what they expect next. She had her pupils draw up their own narration to a filmstrip on the "Causes of the Revolution" to replace the high-school level commentary that came with it. Her fifth-grade colleague, Eleanor Cohen, normally turns off movie sound...
Nobody got all the answers to last Thursday's rock and roll quiz, but three entrants did hit 39 of the 40 questions correctly. They were John Leshy '66 of Kirkland House; Jim Sersich '68 of Lowell; and Suzanne Snell '66 and Joel DeMott '67 of Eliot Hall. Almost everyone was stumped by question number 32, which asked for the source of the lines, "Like a summer rose needs the sun and rain, I need your sweet love to heal the pain." This lovely couplet comes from Tommy Hunt's unjustifiably obscure "I Just Don't Know What...
...were disheartened, dismayed, even shocked that no one was able to answer all the questions in our rock and roll quiz last January. A couple of the boys in the Tommy's Lunch pinball crowd managed to answer 30 out of 40, but that was as well as anyone...
Nonetheless, popular demand for another quiz has been great, but this time we have decided to pander to the apparent ignorance of our readers with the simple-minded questions listed below. Anyone who submits all the correct answers before Monday will win undying fame as well as a slightly warped copy of Billie and Lillie's "The Greasy Spoon...
...swore to her belief in the truth of its contents before a notary public. Skeptical, Hilton's lawyers forced Mrs. Surowitz to take the stand in a Chicago federal district court to prove her understanding of all the details in her 60-page complaint. Naturally, she flunked the quiz. Calling it "a sham," the judge dismissed the suit. Because Mrs. Surowitz was "wholly ignorant," a higher court upheld the dismissal...