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Most baffling of man's seven ages is adolescence. A few years ago a commission of the Progressive Education Association undertook to find out what makes adolescents tick. In a monumental five-year study it examined thousands, collected over 600 case histories. Fortnight ago a Swiss biologist and psychologist, Peter Bios, friend of Sigmund Freud, summed up the commission's findings in a report on four representative youngsters named Betty, Paul Mary and Joe (The Adolescent Personality; D. Appleton-Century...
...safely said that classical music is a manifestation of a higher, i.e. more advanced part of our cultural and intellectual development. It is usually subtler, more esoteric, frequently more ethereal and (or) profound. Jazz is less restrained, more primitive, and often closer, in my opinion, to what makes us tick...
...topping 50,000 a week. Last week Musicraft made a deal with a promoter (anonymous) to sell at least 1,200,000 Masterpiece discs next year in credit furniture and jewelry stores. The records will be sold, like silver or china, in packages of a dozen or two, on tick...
...Freshmen who wish to find out what makes Harvard College tick, there is no better solution than the CRIMSON competition which begins on Thursday evening at 7:30 o'clock...
...crowd of amateurs. But you will be frankly surprised at the smoothness of the production, smoother than most glamour-musicals. The songs are done to a turn. There are no individual stars, but the revue is such a cohesive unit that your attention is kept right to the tick of the moment and you never start praying that the star will take...