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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Otherwise, though the action has been sedulously (and sometimes clumsily) chopped up into various locales, the film is faithful to the spirit of its original. It is still about the social, marital, and personal maladjustment of a "working-class intellectual," a university-educated sweet-stall operator named Jimmy Porter. In his frequent periods of depression, Jimmy still has recourse to blowing his Dixieland trumpet, and when feeling good he still composes pseudo-music hall songs combining sex and sociology, one of which is entitled "Don't Be Afraid to Sleep with Your Sweetheart Just Because She's Better Than...
...group will take off from Logan International Airport at 6:15 a.m. in a plane provided by Northeast Airlines. Besides the students, various Observatory officials will make the trip. Menzel is director of the Observatory...
...than a cow, since it diverts none of its food to its own uses. One hundred pounds of ordinary fresh-cut grass yield 3 to 4 lbs. of protein, 8.5 Ibs. of fiber and ½ lb. of syrup containing vitamins, hormones and steroids. The fiber can be made into various sorts of fiber-boards or used for fires in fuel-poor countries that burn dried cow dung. Chayen's machine can also digest ferns, weeds, leaves of jungle trees...
Wolfe landed down the St. Lawrence River from Quebec on June 27, 1759, aquiver with dreams of glory. But for most of the summer, he fretfully wavered between various battle plans while his army was cut almost in half by dysentery, scurvy and Indian raids. Finally, in desperation, Wolfe decided to strike. and at the last minute (possibly on the advice of spies) chose a spot that proved to be one of the weakest links in the French defenses...
...essay in this issue is a two-page item called Sex: the Literary Breakthrough at Harvard Square, which takes notice of the various Harvard love stories published recently by such writers as Harold Brodkey and Jonathan Kozol, and the similar but less facile pieces which, says the Advocate, comprise roughly one-third of all Harvard undergraduate writing. The informative section of this article is really quite interesting: one can hardly have missed making the connection between Brodkey's Sentimental Education, Kozol's novel and other similar work, but it is pleasant to see it done in print with some competent...