Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite occasional lurid headlines, most divorces are dull, sad and tediously routine. So when the case of Raymond v. Marie Bivins came up for settlement in Rapid City, S. Dak., last week, Court Reporter Frances Geyerman flicked on her tape recorder and prepared to be bored. She was almost shot to death instead...
...there's no doubt about it: It's fashionable to be rigorous. With this sad fact in mind, there are two especially intriguing courses to look at. Michael Walzer's Gov 104 (M. W. F. at 10) will anguish over one's obligation to one's government, and potential CO's will find good company and good ideas there. Prof. McCloskey's Gov 107 (Tu. Th. S. at 10), American Political Thought, allows students to make their own reading lists...
...considerable value to the national ROTC program to have a unit within the academic system at Harvard. But since the Harvard program is more of a show than a producer of officers, the Army does not assign Harvard its best officers. The end result is a sad cycle: very few Harvard undergraduates join ROTC, the Army therefore does not send first-rate commanding officers, and the program becomes more unpopular than before...
PUCCINI: LA RONDINE (2 LPs; RCA Victor). Magda, Puccini's sad "swallow," is close kin to Verdi's Violetta, the "wayward one." Puccini's little courtesan also leads a gay, cynical life in Paris until she meets her one true love, with whom she flees to the peace of a country villa. Then, to the strains of a rending melody, she leaves her lover when she realizes that her scarlet past would shock his proper parents. Anna Moffo illuminates the most lyrical and substantial elements in her poignant role, and her characterization is nicely...
...first pegs him as a sentimental phony, their encounter grows from hostility to some understanding, and each leaves with a little more dignity and strength than he had before. A wisp of a theme, but written with a lyrical quality that makes the reader ache for Wideman's sad, inarticulate people...