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...most important result of the Tablet's editorial was not evident until the next issue of Landscapes approached readiness for the press. Just what happened is unknown--students say one thing, Deans another. Dean Coulton received the copy for the issue before it went to press. He claims the submission was voluntary, editors claim they were pressured into giving it to the Dean for his approval. Coulton, speaking as an individual, not a Dean, told Landscapes' staff that he found the tone of the magazine one of preoccupation with "sex, disease, and abnormality." He suggested that the material...
...these statistics actually reflect is the quality of prediction afforded by SAT scores, in terms of later grades. They say nothing about what a grade is intended to measure, or how consistently it measures even that unknown...
...could you stir us up this way with the provocative information that wealthy King Saud's gift to Ike was a secret [Feb. 18]? We keep imagining a locked room somewhere in the White House, unknown even to Mamie, in which is hidden a bevy of veiled and beauteous dancing girls...
...Lorenzo da Ponte was not only a fop but a flop. As Poet to the Imperial Theaters in Vienna, it was his duty to write librettos for "great composers," but Da Ponte had muffed the job. In 1785 he decided to collaborate with "an almost unknown, second-rate composer" named Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Joseph II was shocked by such folly, but eventually, the amiable Emperor gave his approval. The new opera was Le Nozze di Figaro. So began the greatest collaboration in operatic history. To this day, says British Biographer April FitzLyon, nobody quite knows why "the facile, mediocre poet...
...freshman fencing team, in its fourth and final preparation for the big Yale match Saturday, will meet an unknown Brandeis squad tonight at 8 p.m. in the I.A.B...