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...show tunes sound remarkably alike. Best thing in the revue is Comedienne Charlotte Rae, who is herself at her best in a pair of screwy madrigal numbers. There are two or three entertaining skits, but the bulk of them are either dead on arrival or let their lifeblood ebb away...
Through the years local gourmets have made a variety of suggestions for relieving chronic indigestion and starvation, ranging from abolition to Hayes-Bickford. This year a low ebb in gastronomic satisfaction precipitated another investigation, by well-meaning, if hungry Student Council Members...
Brandeis to date has been the doormat of the G.B.L. with a season's record of 2 and 11. Defensively, the team has been weak all year, and with the exception of Stein's performance against Northeastern, the pitching has been at a low ebb. Catcher and captain Dick Cunningham has been the only consistent hitter...
Most of the boycotts are unorganized, word-of-mouth affairs. Some crop up overnight and wither as swiftly. Others last for weeks or months in the ebb and flow of their effectiveness...
...first luxury is rising at 5 a.m. Tiny has poetic visions of a rosy-fingered dawn, but ". . . this is a real dawn. The sky is a bitter dirty gray color to which drops of orange blood are slowly added . . . Human life is at its lowest ebb. This is the time most people die." Tiny wants to live, even though she finds that she is a portable blood bank for the dread tsetse and squadrons of dive-bombing mosquitoes...