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U.S.C. fell to "footballism," a blend of pep rallies and fraternity frivolities-"the undergraduate mating dance," in one professor's words. The faculty fared worse. Presiding for 25 years was miserly, grandiloquent "Rufus Rex"-President Rufus von KleinSmid, who claimed to be paying professors between $4,200 and $7,500 a year while a faculty canvass showed the average to be $3,600 and the lowest to be only $2,600. "Lord, those were dreadful years," recalls one survivor. "You couldn't discuss ideas with anybody. Nobody...
...hotel. With half of Hollywood in the hall, Fisher sounded nervous. But an overflow audience forgave occasional flatfalls when he sang the second chorus of That Face! to Liz. She sat, hauntingly convalescent and subject to drafts in her well-cleaved evening dress, chatting with her physician, Dr. Rex Kennamer. Listeners were visibly moved; Eddie, who made a million by having the sort of face that middle-aged ladies want to put through college, probably will have no trouble financing a graduate course...
POEMS (127 pp.)-George Seferis-Translated by Rex Warner-Atlantic-Little, Brown...
...folk song arrangements, and patriotic hymning. The program of the Choral Society and the Glee Club set high standards of taste for the moderns to match when they opened with Thomas Tallis's Lamentations of Jeremiah and Heinrich Schutz's 34th Psalm; three contemporary madrigals and Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex met them generally well, but Roger Sessions's Turn, O Libertad...
Stravinsky created a unique form in Odeipus Rex, for its drama has neither opera's action nor the oratorio's formal units. Yet the music is crammed with references to this style or that, to Handel and Verdi, little touches that jar the listener at first but later seem almost ironical...