Word: various
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Appointments have been made by the '51 Committee to supervise the various arrangements which it must make. The quest for entertainers will be led by Raymond Grew '51 and Richard B. Hansen '51. Louis Solomon '51 and Robert W. Tolf '51 are in charge of the program, and Sherrill H. Houston '51 will provide refreshments...
...literature, history and other inane and dry subjects. And in college a continuation of the same program. What a waste of my time. Much better it would have been had I been taken out of school at the age of 14 and put to work and tried out at various vocations to discover what pleased me; and if I found I needed more book learning, then, and only then, I could return to the proper school to learn what I needed, instead of being filled with a lot of useless junk that the educational experts thought I should be filled...
...most dogged (and futile) essays in civilization. A ragged parallelogram of 5,200 square miles of barren territory, it is tucked away at the southwest corner of the North West Frontier, at a point where the Punjab and Kashmir reach out toward Afghanistan and Baluchistan. It is inhabited by various tribes who, finding their land too poor for a decent standard of living, have for years supported themselves by raids on their less impoverished neighbors...
Criminals, clergymen, clerks, teachers, students, prison inmates, men of various types and ages were interviewed and urged to tell all. As a result of the tabulated testimony, Kinsey concludes that 85% of the total U.S. male population has premarital intercourse; nearly 70% has relations with prostitutes; between 30% and 45% has extra-marital intercourse; 37% has some homosexual experience between adolescence and old age, with the highest rate among single males...
...there were any doubts left about the abilities of the New England Opera Theatre, they vanished on Sunday afternoon, December 21. From various points of view that afternoon's performance of "Idomeneo" was the high-water mark of the musical season in Boston and very probably in New York, too. Singing and staging combined as they seldom do in the opera world to produce a performance which was a gem in itself and, more than that, opened up new vistas for the future of Boris Goldovsky's pet project...