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...honor and chastity--who believes in those things anymore? We know the delights of the sexual relationship. . . . Nowadays if you want to f---somebody, you do, if he or she is willing. You just do it for whatever there can be for both of you. This is why The Scarlet Letter is so quaint to us--all that agitation about fornication...
Columbia takes on Rutgers, which hasn't been heard of in Ivy circles since it lost to Princeton in the final seconds of opening day. But the Lions have been ground down by the Big Three in succession and aren't up to upsetting the Scarlet Knights at this point. Rutgers 24, Columbia...
Died. Robert E. Woodruff, 83, boss of the Erie Railroad (now Erie-Lack-awanna) from 1939 to 1956; of cancer; in Delray Beach, Fla. "The scarlet woman of Wall Street" was the name for the four-times bankrupt Erie in 1939 when Woodruff, then one of the road's few able executives, took over as a court-appointed trustee. He needed only two years to get the company out of receivership; a year later, as president, he was able to announce a $1 common-stock dividend-first for the hapless Erie in 69 years...
...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 set off by Tenors Daniele Barioni and Piero de Palma...
...Munson, the building inspector who would force parents to obtain tree-house permits [July 7] for the safety of their kids. And a plague on him for daring to suggest specifications. Shall we add this to the burgeoning list of personality-stifling, scarlet-taped "blueprints for living" that add so much pallor to American childhood these days? Can a boy build his Shangri-la with a mind cluttered by requirements for 1-in. floor boards, two-by-four framing and 42-in.-high walls? Can he grow into the resourceful, inventive, self-sufficient man he's expected...