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South of Massachusetts Avenue lies the realm of upperclasmen, land of Houses, clubs, and tailoring establishments. On Holyoke Street, south of the Hygiene Building, is the Indoor Athletic Building. At the foot of Boylston Street, near the Cambridge end of the Lars Anderson Bridge, is the Weld Boat Club...
Even fairy tales were under attack. Pravda blasted two children's magazines for printing "nonsensical fairy tales, which take the youthful reader out of the realm of reality or distort the truth about the Soviet Union." Instead, said Pravda sternly, they should acquaint "young readers with the problems of life and the struggle of our Socialist fatherland...
Theoretically, you could still have the rights to change the government by peaceful means, but planning demands continuity at least in administration. One way out is to create more independent boards, mainly outside the realm of political controversy; but Wootton admits that planning can only work where there is common agreement between parties as to social ends, and favors inter-party conferences to emphasize agreements rather than disputes...
...probably not even get a rise out of the bobby soxers, while the Andrews Sisters' rendition of "Johnny Fedora and Alice Blue Bonnet" would have tasted better with less sugar. The sequence featuring the Goodman sextet is a bit of surrealism that seems to have no place in the realm of motion pictures, though it comes out better in an animated cartoon than when dragged into a regular movie as a dream sequence. "Roll Along, Blue Bayon," which stars two cranes cavorting in the heart of Senator Claghorn's country, is probably the dullest thing ever to come...
Some years ago Edward Kasner, a whimsical Columbia University mathematician, coined the word "googol" as the name of a very large number: the number i followed by 100 zeros (TIME, Feb. 28, 1938). Dr. Kasner made it clear that the googol, though useful in the recondite realm of probability mathematics, would never be needed in mundane affairs...