Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...amusement the President still relies on moving pictures, and his favorites, like many another citizen's, are animated cartoons. He gets little time for his beloved stamp collection, little time to con his ship models, his collection of navy prints. Most cheering note to anti-third-termers: his big tan sombrero, which he wears on campaigns, is packed away many layers deep...
From this poilu's note, the censor of Secteur Postal 390 had excised not a line...
...Life, Inhale & Exhale (short stories), called his experiment a "balletplay." It used music (composed by Henry Brant), dancing (choregraphed by Eugene Loring), dialogue (Saroyan's), and exquisite, dreamy sets consisting of stereopticon shadows cast on gauzy overlapping screens (Boris Aronson)-was, as Saroyan boasted in his cocky program note, "a new American form." As usual by Saroyan, critics were baffled; some thought the experiment goofy, some thought it just goo, some thought it really good. None could deny it was full to the lips with life...
Some day maybe the guns of the Sociology Department will be trained on the exam period. After the manner of this tribe, they may find that Harvard is now in an idealistic age, whereas during the rest of the term its culture is sensate. They will surely take note of Harvard's sharply stratified society, the two great classes, students and Faculty. They will say, "During the exam period the relationship of these two strata of society undergoes its profoundest change." It is strange they haven't thought of making such a study before this. From the sociologist's standpoint...
...note: The Faculty has recently taken under consideration the Student Council report advocating five compulsory broad survey courses in place of the present system of concentration and distribution. The Crimson, feeling this proposal is off fundamental importance, invites further letters on the subject...