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When the Rules Committee of the Radcliffe Government Association recommends tomorrow that any student past her freshman year be allowed to sign out till any hour, it will run into a squall of opposition from a Briggs Hall contingent. The group contends that most 'Cliffies cannot regulate their social lives without recourse to a set of stringent rules, and concludes that the College should retain its present restrictions. Their stand is short-sighted and does not deserve to be taken seriously by anyone concerned with Radcliffe's future as a leader in women's education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Briggs' Last Stand | 3/20/1962 | See Source »

Peasants invariably steal a few daylight hours to till their private plots for profit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communism: The Breadline Society | 3/16/1962 | See Source »

...table and chair. Primed with coffee and cigarettes, he would type out poems till 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning. When his mother opened his door in the morning, calling out "Rise and shine, rise and shine," as Amanda does in Menagerie, stale smoke billowed out, and she would some times find Tom sprawled across his bed still clothed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Angel of the Odd | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

Poetry is not, unfortunately, what most poets are writing in English today. In the last 20 years, the English-speaking world has produced no major poet and scarcely a score of those minor bards who assiduously tune the lyre of language till another great man is ready to take it up. But if quality is lacking, quantity is not. In the 16 years since World War II, more poems have been composed in the U.S.-last year more than 200,000 were submitted for publication-than were written in ten centuries between Beowulf and the Bomb; and in Britain, poetic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry in English: 1945-62 | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

Lover Come Back. Stanley Shapiro, one of Hollywood's more competent make-'em-laugh-till-they-gag men, has served up a grand old turkey of a plot-the mistaken-identity bit-and has stuffed it with plenty of giggles. Dessert: a couple of cream puffs called Rock Hudson and Doris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mar. 9, 1962 | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

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