Word: classical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actor-Manager Maurice Evans, specialist since 1935 in such classic doublet & hose roles as Romeo, Hamlet, Richard II, Falstaff and Macbeth, broke a theatrical tradition. For The Browning Version (see THEATER), he made his first Broadway appearance in what he called "an honest-to-God pair of pants...
...past ten years the Crimson has been girding for a repetition of the classic stunt--a stunt with all the Indian trimmings. Here's what happened...
Never Mind Your Manners. Almost as extreme as his bitterness against the Freudians is Salter's veneration of Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, the physiologist who coined the term "conditioned reflex." (Pavlov's classic example: a dog which has heard a bell ring whenever it was fed will eventually drool whenever it hears the bell, even though no food is offered.) The behaviorist school is founded on what Salter calls "the firm scientific bedrock of Pavlov." Its main tenet: man is a creature of habit; he can be "conditioned" to the habit of not even hearing a pistol fired next...
...first session of the annual Phillips Brooks House tea-dance classic was run off yesterday to show the latest in fall fashions and Radcliffe girls...
Savants say that the unprecedented even ratio was caused by the Frozh disillusionment at the Radcliffe Freshman Dance last Saturday. The boy-girl ratio then was 15 to one, in the classic tradition of this encounter. Also, this tea-dance was not as well advertised as usual...