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...hope that I have presented a few thoughts which may change the somewhat erroneous vie taken of Cal as presented to my Harvard friends. Jack Lacy Junior-Engineering Math University of California at Berkeley
Jimson is the Edwardians' secret dream of an unfetterd vie boehme come to life: he owns a houseboat, he hates the rich and noble to their Philistine faces, he is witty and irascible, he is irresistible to women. Also, as I have mentioned, he is a lousy painter, but the secret of Jimson's charm, the fact that allows us to let him get away with all his outrageousness, is that he never, or hardly ever, pretends that his work is much good. He is too much of an artist to try that...
There hover over the play the tutelary figures of Strindberg, Hellman, the late O'Neill (especially Long Day's Journey Into Night), and the Sartre of No Exit. And why not? Albee was out to create a major work, and he might as well vie with the best. He has, in fact, come up with far and away the most impressive new American play to reach Broadway since Miss Hellman's Toys in the Attic three years...
...trick is to determine to a micrometer the line between tasteful appeal and tasteless eroticism. Photographers spend hours adjusting a fan to blow a bit of drapery across a bare breast at just the crucial angle, contrive ingenious arm arrangements in contortions few females would be likely to assume, vie with each other to find props (a white cat, a shower curtain) that will generally obscure what is being specifically suggested...
Leverett House, which was beaten out for the House championship when they dropped a 22 to 8 decision to Eliot last week, will face Timothy Dwight at 2 p.m. on the Freshman field. In other 2 p.m. contests, Lowell will vie with Pierson on Field 1; Kirkland meets Calhoun on Field 2; and Quincy faces Branford at Brown and Nichols School...