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By keeping entirely to surfaces, a play that strives after popular appeal is never compelled to make compromises. Even so, the writing sometimes fails it: before the story gathers momentum, it often seems more cute than droll, more hack-professional than peasantlike. It is not until the teahouse is building...
But the warmth and friendliness are seldom tried by any contact with surly individualism. Non-conformists don't seem to choose Colgate, and there is no little band of intellectuals to introduce an air of apathetic bohemianism. The students place little emphasis on the arts, prefering such solids as Economics...
This is the time of year that brings moments of wistful nostalgia to many an office-bound adult watching the younger generation heading back to school. Here at TIME, two adults were recently offered the chance to go back to school for a year themselves. These two TIME employees temporarily...
Last week Moody's wistful hope seemed less of a pipe dream. With a syndicate of well-heeled and well-connected backers of predominantly Democratic leanings, Moody took a 15-year lease on Detroit's Michigan Rotary Printing Co., which has been printing a profitable 800,000-copy...
Still crusading last week, Sir Thomas took his famed Royal Philharmonic Orchestra to Oxford's New Theater for the world premiere of Delius' 61-year-old opera, Irmelin. For four hours, the wistful music wended its peaceful way. The Princess Irmelin rejected her 100th suitor, explaining, in effect...