Word: great
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Committee disregarded the most important suggestion made by a special Student Council group. A great many people hide books and keep them out of circulation simply because they do not wish to study in Lamont. The buzzing lights, the oft-inadequate ventilation, and the noise and crowding of Reading Period make the building undesirable for concentrated work...
...Marc Pincherle (220 pp.; Reynal; $18), is a bold undertaking by a noted French musicologist: a history of Western music from early Christian chants to the present. Like any authoritative book that covers so vast a field, it seems perfunctory at times. But the basic information is there, and great taste has gone into the selection of 240 illustrations, ranging from a loth century B.C. harpist to Jazzman Sydney Bechet...
This is an angry first novel about the casual maltreatment of the insane in a Midwestern state asylum called Canterbury. The book's anger might be a great deal more effective if Author Telfer, who herself spent six years as a clerk in a state institution, did not keep abandoning the snake pit for the passion...
...Wizard of Oz (CBS, 6-8 p.m.). A rerun of the great Judy Garland film (vintage 1939). With Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Billie Burke, Margaret Hamilton. Color...
...Armada, by Garrett Mattingly. An exciting history of the great sea battle, and of the climate of political and religious strife that brought the English and Spanish fleets into collision...