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...came to sip," Ogden Nash has written on the cover of Helen Bevington's new book of very light verse, "and stayed to gulp." Searching for similarly unanticipated delights, the CRIMSON presents, as is its wont, a brace of courses that cheer and may inebriate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shopping Around: M.W.F. | 9/25/1961 | See Source »

Assistant Professor Sternberg's Match 267 ("Infinite Lie Groups and the Differential Geometry of G-Structures") wont' come till spring, but his more elementary Math 266 (called simply "Lie Groups") meets this term at 10, and the only prerequisite: merely a general knowledge of differential manifolds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shopping Around: M.W.F. | 9/25/1961 | See Source »

President Sukarno of Indonesia is probably the most footloose head of state since Richard the Lionhearted. Last week, as is his yearly wont, he took leave from his Djakarta palace and his lesser palace at Bogor, with its surrounding park stocked with small white deer, to fly off on a three-month junket in a chartered DC-8 (estimated charter cost: $600,000) to Thailand, South America, Europe, Moscow and Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia: Absorbed, Crazed & Obsessed | 4/28/1961 | See Source »

...Dropper Economics? In her very simplicity of approach Sylvia Porter detractors are wont to see superficiality. Their principal objection is that she is not worth reading by anyone who has gone beyond the kindergarten economics level. "Economics by the eye-dropper." sneers a teacher of economics at NewYork University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sylvia & You | 11/28/1960 | See Source »

...horsehair, Guthrie robustness smacks a bit too much of horseplay. But this Pinafore is Gilbert and Sullivan, not Guthrie and Sullivan. Thus, as Josephine, pretty, pleasing-voiced Marion Studholme sings her arias impeccably for the lovely songs they are; and if Sir Joseph Porter capers, he was always wont to caper, and was always meant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Favorites in Manhattan | 9/19/1960 | See Source »

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