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Bing's undergraduate experience is presented in four acts, each describing one of the four years of college. The first three years rush along, like a well-executed locomotive yell, at a relentlessly accelerating rate of rah-rah and haha, and if the last year somehow loses momentum, it does not much matter-the audience needs a rest by that time anyway. Bing gives it the old college try, and if he cannot sing so well as he used to or act any better than he ever did, that does not much matter either. A younger generation-represented mainly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 26, 1960 | 9/26/1960 | See Source »

...describing the contest, Percussion quoted Glamour's ten basic points for a well-dressed girl. Among the qualifications were "good grooming--not just neat, but impeccable," an "appropriate campus look, in line with local customs," and an "appropriate--not rah rah--look for off-campus occasions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Barnard, Moors Refuse to Enter 'Cliffe Best-Dressed Girl Contest | 2/14/1959 | See Source »

Girl in a Hole, the musical version of Alice in Wonderland, is a ring-tailed roarer, a rollicking, ringing, rabble-rousing, riotous revel. Rah...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Girl in a Hole | 1/21/1959 | See Source »

...spent a year on a Colorado sugar-beet farm, renting their own land to help make a stake. Then they went home to Cressy. For Pat, it was as bad as ever. "I was kind of a homely kid. I was never a school type-I wasn't rah rah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BROADWAY: The Girls on Grant Avenue | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

...chief of the Venezuelan navy, and eight other armed-forces officers met secretly at a Caracas military academy at 6 p.m., drew up an ultimatum giving the dictator until 10 p.m. to step down. To make the navy's position unmistakably clear, Rear Admiral Larrazabal (pronounced Lah-rah-sah-bahl) ordered nine destroyers to stand off Caracas' port of La Guaira with their guns trained on the shore. Army commanders, sickened by the sight of Venezuelan killing Venezuelan, joined the admiral's bid to end the fighting. Desperately, the dictator tried to bargain, but this time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Dictator's Downfall | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

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