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...coed group of New Frontiersmen (among them: Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver, Deputy Defense Secretary Roswell Gilpatric), Bobby last month set up weekly night-school seminars presided over by Presidential Aide (and ex-Harvard historian) Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and State Department Counselor (and ex-M.I.T. economist) Walt Whitman Rostow. Dubbed "Hickory Hill University" after Bobby's McLean, Va., estate, the seminars involve homework of one book a week, and Rostow, exercising a professor's traditional prerogative, promptly assigned his own Emergence of Nations. Equally promptly. Bobby's wife Ethel exercised a student's traditional right...
...Literature, Suzanne G. Davol of Seville House and Greenwich, Conn., Fine Arts, Jane H. Fishburne of Jordan C and Arlington, Va., Anthropology, Barbara J. Friedberg of Comstock Hall and New York City, Mathematics, Julie E. Goldberg of Cabot Hall and Dallas, Texas, History and Literature, Martha B. Heineman of Whitman Hall and Chicago, III., English, and Mrs. Judith Arons Kates of Boston, History and Literature...
Only a very peculiar person would be aroused by a reading of Tropic of Cancer. In a famous (and highly favorable) review of the book, George Orwell called Miller a "Whitman among the corpses," and the phrase nicely conveys the real flavor of the novel. Parts of its are very funny, but in general--especially in sexual passages--Tropic is commenting on the death of the flesh in modern urban society...
Plot ain't much. By James Edward Grant (The Alamo) and Clair Huffaker, out of a novel by Paul I. Wellman, the script describes how John Wayne and Stuart Whitman make buzzard meat out of, oh, about 700 greasy renegades-yellow-bellied skunks running guns to the Comanches. (Actually, Big John does the job by himself. Stu is like the human figure beside the geography-book whale; he just sort of stands there to show how big Big John really is.) But in this western the bald theme matters less than the hairy variations. Item: the big bold badman...
...judges, Professors Rosenberg and Woodworth and Radcliffe's Dean Sherman, awarded second place to Eliot Hall for its song about the dorm being swallowed up by the new House System. The girls of Whitman, singing of the anguish of paper writing, won third prize...