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...half-hour elapsed Thursday at Paine between the declared offense and the collection of bursar's cards, a half-hour in which anyone could wander in and out. When members of the board did collect the cards, they apparently missed a good number of those present. A teaching fellow at the scene collected 27 cards after University officers left, but the ad board has refused to accept them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leniency | 12/17/1968 | See Source »

...latter category. In his attempt to salvage theatre from the sentimentality of his day, Goldsmith dipped enthusiastically into the grab bag of Restoration drama. Unfortunately, all his hand touched upon was an endless array of frenetic entrances and exits. Aside from a few minor characters, his players still must wander about with an air of frustrated gentility. All that excitement, but so little vigor--rather like a spastic with anemia...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: She Stoops to Conquer | 12/14/1968 | See Source »

...sighting telescopes on distant fixed stars and carefully measuring their apparent movement, scientists have determined that the North and South poles-the points at which the imaginary axis of rotation pierces the earth's surface-are continually on the move. Over the course of a year, they wander about the polar regions in roughly circular paths about 50 ft. in diameter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Geophysics: The Wandering Poles | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

Thursday nights, after a Lowell House dinner, I wander back slowly to my room, thinking deeply--not necessarily about football. At 6:30, I flick on the philosopher-king and his disciple, Eric...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: SPORTS of the 'CRIME' | 11/16/1968 | See Source »

...pert little nose has been thickened, the hairline lowered, the eyebrows thinned, the mouth made severe and straight. It is only the emotional makeup that is wrong. Lawrence was one of those rare anomalies, like Lotte Lenya or Marlene Dietrich, for whom pitch was not important. She could wander off key in every bar, yet the song's content remained pure and intense. Andrews is ten times the musician Lawrence was; her voice never varies a hemisemidemiquaver from the written notes. In the exuberant comic numbers, person and impersonator coincide. But when Julie attempts a bittersweet ballad, like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Lawrence/Tussaud | 11/8/1968 | See Source »

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