Word: thelma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scent of a new series of Radcliffe lectures about "sex and marriage in modern society," 50 Crimson undergraduates, with hair neatly combed, presented themselves at Long-fellow Hall Wednesday to hear Dr. Thelma G. Alper, lecturer in Clinical Psychology, give the first in the series...
...affair with a tough little Eurasian named Thelma Morrison-one of those clinical matings, ruthlessly antiromantic, which seem to be a feature of contemporary fiction, whether laid in Bombay or Westchester. His sister goes to jail in a riot, his friend Salim is assassinated and he himself attacked in ambush. His project for an airline transporting pilgrims comes to nothing (the pilgrims get airsick) and he settles down to a job as a commercial airlines pilot...
Humperdinck: Hansel & Gretel (Metropolitan Opera Association Orchestra and Chorus, Max Rudolf conducting; Columbia, 24 sides). First and happy result of Columbia's agreement with the Metropolitan to record two full operas a year at the Met. Sung in English, soloists include Risë Stevens, Nadine Conner, Thelma Votipka, John Brownlee, Claramae Turner. Performance: good...
Admitting "a great need for more information on the problems of marriage," Mrs. Thelma G. Alper, lecturer on psychology, discounts the desirability of a formal academic course here on the subject. She vigorously denies the sweeping assertion of surveys showing that college graduates more unsuccessful matches than today's par for Reno...
...Whole World Over (adapted from the Russian of Konstantine Simonov by Thelma Schnee; produced by Walter Fried & Paul F. Moss) is a Soviet comedy without a teaspoonful of Soviet propaganda. Indeed, even in the way of plot it would be hard to find anything less revolutionary. Laid in Moscow, the play deals with housing shortages, postwar readjustments and, above all, love-as they exist the whole world over...