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...then throws himself into his job until he switches out the lights in his modest two-family house at 3 a.m. (after an interlude of "reading and thinking alone"). Collects coins as a hobby, but now has little time for that or for his family-his glamorous Norwegian wife Rut and their two sons, Peter, 11, and Lars, 7. Brandt speaks Norwegian at home, is also fluent in English, made an excellent impression in the U.S. last winter...
...Athletics, for it is the manager who has contacts with both the players and administration. Managers feel they have a grave responsibility for team spirit. Sloppy arrangements of a trip may wreck the spirit of a team. Above all, managing is one way "to get out of a rut" by assuming some worthwhile responsibilities in a valuable extra-curricular activity...
...University is already alleviating one source of student grumbling by upgrading its purchasing standards on meat. The next improvement should be to free the student from the dining hall rut. Kresge and Harkness have never attempted to serve all of the students all of the time and yet they survive economically. The best program for College kitchens might be the suggested 18-meal week, or perhaps a six-day week with Sundays...
From the first backfire, modern drivers, cushioned by air suspension, automatic transmissions and power steering, will boggle at this venturesome cross-continental tour. Historian Nicholson's chronicle jounces over every rut in the obstacle course in recreating what, even for the primitive motorists of the Peking-to-Paris reliability trial, was a bone-bruising, soul-trying nightmare...
...Cocteau version, which is 24 years old, does some clever satiric tale twisting, makes the story turn a psychological handspring or two, tosses in talk of music and dancing, and includes scene after scene that Sophocles did without. It uses a legitimate method of getting out of a classical rut and taking a fresh modern slant. The result is interesting without being successful...