Word: setting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Last week, though apparently not quite ready for a full-scale U.S. release, Oliver Twist was heading for exhibition in the neighboring and friendly state of Texas. The film's U.S. distributor, Eagle Lion Classics, announced that a first-run booking had been set for Jan. 19 in seven Texas cities (plus Albuquerque, N.M.). The prospect: moviegoers throughout the U.S. may eventually get a chance to see the picture...
...rebellious young intellectuals, it was the resolute opposite of Victorianism. Against Mrs. Grundy's boned corset it set the languid flow of an Aubrey Beardsley tunic. It opposed ice-water morality with the dreggy wine of French "realism." It countered convention with Oscar Wildeish witticisms ("Where is the pleasure of having parents if you may not disobey them"). For common sense it substituted shamelessly overgrown verbiage (" 'Tears, little one,' I said. 'See how they swim like whitebait in the fish-pools of your eyes...
...second time in as many terms, a Student Council sub-committee has taken a set of rules proposed by the Faculty Committee on Undergraduate Organizations and done a fair and sensible job of revising them. It has not come up with quite so good a version as it predecessor produced last May; but it has knocked out most of the objectionable provisions that came out of Associate Dean Watson's office last week...
Both these changes can and should be made by the Council when it takes up these new rules. The gap is now closing, and it should not be too long before the Council and the faculty committee can get together on a final set of rules that will give groups the greatest possible freedom...
...committee's amendments are designed to make the Administration's set of rules less restrictive. The changes...