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...movie-credit-like cover, is "an Irreverent Compendium of American Quotable Notables edited by Cleveland Amory with Earl Blackwell." Ringmaster Amory, who killed society, has now set about celebrities, and when in doubt on what to say, he has dropped back and punned. Marlon Brando is "the all-time tempest in a T-shirt." Tommy Manville is "an altar-ego." Eva Gabor is "strictly from Hungary." Alfred Hitchcock is the "star of staged screams and television." And Elizabeth Taylor is "a million-dollar crybaby in a wive-and-men spent store." Whew. That took four years to write...
...that the tempest has come, and largely gone, two dangers must be avoided. First, no attempt should be made to exploit the general excitement as a lever, either to sway the Faculty which retains final control, or to stimulate custodial employees in the Houses to invade students' privacy. The inevitable barrage of letters from University alumni and donors should be allowed to coerce...
...have been following the parietal hours controversy with somewhat interest, feeling certain that the House system is a sturdy enough teapot to survive even this vocal a tempest. Dr. Cobb's letter, however, compels me to point out a rather obvious ambivalance which has characterized much of the debate: a nervous hopping about between moral and legalistic justifications for a change in the rules...
HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 6-7:30 p.m.). Maurice Evans, Richard Burton, Roddy McDowall and Lee Remick star in Shakespeare's The Tempest. Color. Repeat...
...would be greeted with royal flattery by a bearded eminence whose own genius was that he was perfectly suited to his job and his times. Fields was a first-rate business man, a fourth-rate poet and a tenth-rate moralist. One of his poems, "The Ballad of the Tempest," is worth quoting: "We are lost!"-the Captain shouted, As he staggered down the stairs...