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Thomas K. Sisson '46, assistant dean of the GSAS, estimates that 40 per cent of the present first-year class is draft-vulnerable. He believes that almost all these people will be called for induction, and that few will fortuitously flunk their physicals...
...mitigating influence may blunt the draft's damage. "We'd been seriously thinking of reducing the size of GSAS anyway," says Sisson. A committee on the "future of the Graduate School" is considering, among other matters, such a reduction...
...result, though admissions policy lies in the hands of the individual department heads, who haven't released their decisions, Sisson does not think that they will try to ensure the usual number of first-year students by over-admitting applicants...
...thin through lack of modulation, and a vocabulary of stock gesture. His beard will live on longer than his performance. Andre Bishop, as Rough, wears thin through camp and self-indulgence, but at least has a sure sense of where he's at. The maids, Joan Tolentino and Emily Sisson, work through their roles with a haughty assurance characteristic of certain British black-and-white movies...
Jimmy Porter's women should be alike and they weren't. Alison and Helena are well-bred, stiff, a little nervous -- they'll have an aura of vestal virginity about them forever. But Emily Sisson (Alison) played a trembly faun while Tracy Goss. (Helena) played a la-de-dah matron. So at the end we concentrated on an antique question: which type woman will Jimmy wind up with? Instead we should be watching Jimmy's final gesture of abandon...