Word: roome
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Maria Callas, Zinka Milanov, and Rudolph Bing together in one room and you'll have the situation that forms the basis for Mozart's charming little comic opera, The Impresario. The petty jealousies and bickerings detailed by Mozart and his librettist strike home today just as well as they...
...single-rent system would help eliminate "social segregation" and a "terrible administrative snarl in the Houses," a high official in the Administration said yesterday. But such a plan, he added, would have to overcome "the wide spectrum of room desirability," a built-in feature of our housing...
Another arguement against the present system concerns room assignments in the Yard, according to the administration official. The Freshman Dean has "a very difficult job" trying to preserve a "social balance" in each Yard dormitory, when the buildings vary so widely in their physical attractiveness...
...other hand, although a single-rent plan would have "many advantages," the official pointed to arguments against it. First, there is the range in room desirability. Whereas the proposed rent system would help eliminate "social segregation," it might bring forth "complaints of unfairness." If everybody pays the same price, they may feel a right to the same quality of rooms...
Down at Dunster House, the humanities have taken on an exotic cast this year. An expert on witchcraft has just filled the room left by a tall African named Selbourne Mvusi, who was billed as a "Zulu artist." Of genuine Zulu origin, Mvusi produces sombre, impressionistic oils and mournful woodcuts. He is studying art education at Penn State, at the suggestion of Professor Gordon All-port, who also invited him to Dunster House...