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Richard H. Ullman '55, Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Lowell House, stated that he favored seminars that "aimed at active participation by the undergraduates." He advocated the seminar in which there are reading assignments and in which the student does more than sit and "soak...
...long-festering racial struggle between the 294,000 rural East Indians, who gave Jagan his majority, and the 187,000 Negroes, who live in the towns and see Jagan as just another coolie. What set off the up roar was a Jagan budget that he claimed would ''soak the rich'' but seemed more likely to soak everybody, with increased tariffs on consumer goods and a compulsory savings plan. Even a state visit by Prince Philip did not quench the anger among Negro merchants and workers...
...BEST REMAINING SEATS, by Ben Hall (266 pp.; Potter; $12.50), recalls the vanishing glories of the movie palaces of the 1920s and '30s. If you did not like the movie, you could soak up culture in the lobby looking at the statues. You could buy popcorn under a 40-ft. ceiling, or slump in a lounge that made the baths of Caracalla look like a bird-feeding station. The oldtime movie palaces were (and in some glorious cases still are) the grandest, most begilt structures-inside, at least-ever plastered together; here pictures and text combine for a properly...
...clothes, decide to insure a zanily beatific spinster junk collector named Opal Kronkie (Eileen Heckart) for $30,000, and then murder her for the insurance. The would-be killers drop an entire ceiling on Opal's head, try to run her down in a car, and finally soak her junk-cluttered room in kerosene, but Opal is not obliterated, or even particularly fazed. Her infectious good-heartedness cures the unwholesome three of money fever, and eventually everyone is innocently tossing greenbacks around like confetti...
Mount Vernon, Ind., Indiana University Showboat Majestic: Anchored in the Ohio River, the showboat is presenting Don Marquis' vintage comedy, The Old Soak...