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Like Thornton Niven Wilder but more so, Virginia Woolf is a widely-read if not popular writer whose public is largely made up of people who have not the vaguest idea what she is driving at. Though many a Junior Leaguer felt called upon to rave over Orlando, though some who bought or borrowed it managed to wade through The Waves, few in any league would have chosen to make their enthusiasm coherent. Virginia Woolf is certainly no labyrinthine monster, monstrous clever though she be, but her readers, like a lot of Little Red Riding Hoods, are apt to mistake...
...Three cheers for Albert Coates and the Soviet Union!" cried a young Manhattanite early this month when Conductor Coates took over the last half of the Stadium concerts of the New York-Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra. Albert Coates tried to look unconcerned during the prolonged applause, making only the vaguest of gestures. Then he bobbed ebulliently over his orchestra, resembling greatly a Roman emperor, although illness last spring had reduced his weight from 240 lb. to 200 Ib. From night to night thereafter he presided over such various Stadium doings as four all-Russian programs, the Hall Johnson Choir, the Albertina...
...above implies in toto to "Karamazov," a German talking film at the Fine Arts Theatre. It purports to be taken from Dostoevsky's novel, "The Brothers Karamazov," but has only the vaguest resemblance to it, so that the plot may prove thrilling even to those who have read the book. The direction, typically Continental, is particularly Teutonic in its effort for detailed correctness of setting and costume--even the windows of the bar where the hero imbibes are lettered in appropriate Russian for beer, tea, and coffee. But it seems unnecessary to stress such perfection of immaterial details, especially...
With the increasing emphasis on the tutorial system the gap between Freshman and Sophomore is being steadily widened. Emphasis during the first year is on individual course work with little or no attempt at correlation and the student enters on his Sophomore career with only the vaguest understanding of the purpose and importance of the tutorial system and the function of concentration and distribution. To enable one to pass immediately into upperclass life an introduction to the tutorial system in modified form should be made during the Freshman year...
...angrily disbanded. Last week Pilots Garland Peed, Randy Enslow and Jimmy Garrigan took the K off from Roosevelt, refuelled over the field, headed for Havana. Soon they encountered sticky fog, lost their bearings, groped for eight blind hours until the K's fuel supply ran out. Then, without the vaguest idea where they were, they took to their parachutes, alighted near the wreck of the K,15 mi. from Monroe...