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Federal aid, according to Alfred and Miss Hellman, would lead to a general reduction of ticket prices, a rebirth of community theater, and a saner attitude toward financial success. Kerr, however, cited an experiment in which a New York producer raised the price of back-row seats and immediately found them in demand. "We can always sell the orchestra," he shrugged, "it's more than a question of price...
...lesser benefices conferred by Britain's empire builders on untutored natives was the British monetary system of pence, shillings (12 pence) and pounds (20 shillings). As the empire slowly dissolved, most colonials seized the first chance to convert to a saner system. India, Pakistan and Ceylon switched to a decimalized rupee, Canada and Singapore to a decimalized dollar. Last week South Africa, whose Afrikaner government is intent on being as separate from Britain as it can be without taking itself out of the Commonwealth, replaced the pound with a decimal system of Rands and cents...
Inside the hall, the mood was saner, except when a well-aimed egg broke in the lap of the theologian on the platform, bringing from Steve Allen a drawn-out denunciation of "this coward who threw the egg and ran," and from the victim an assurance that the missile was not rotten...
...last year's campus craze for stuffing people into telephone booths, the University of Arkansas last week added a saner fad: "hunkerin." It means squatting on the balls of the feet for a long time (hunkers is Scottish for haunches). The fad grew out of a chair shortage in a fraternity house at Arkansas, whose students had watched their Ozark daddies squatting and whittling at crossroads stores. Hunkerers always hunker together, and girl hunkerers are perfectly eligible. Sophisticates hunker flatfooted. Real progressives hunker with elbows inside the knees, though this is difficult while "hunkerin' and hookin' " (squatting...
Look Back in Anger. The angry young hero (Richard Burton) boils over with indiscriminate rage at religion, the Sunday Times, his mother-in-law. Somehow the John Osborne play seemed saner on the stage than it does on the screen-but with Claire Bloom and Gary Raymond to help, the movie has its moments...