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This Saturday against Princeton the 6 ft. 7 in. junior will reassume his position as a leader of the Crimson's resurgent 5-1 squad, a team which finds itself in the thick of the Ivy League race...
Lionel Bart has provided a few sprightly tunes, and there are all sorts of coloring-book views of London, but nothing really can pierce through the thick layers of glucose that impact the movie. There are also subplots about running away from home, working toward a new flat, and death and renewal in the animal kingdom (Bella is ailing). The movie has the vacant sentimentality and just the sort of grinding winsomeness that can make family movies such a chore...
...other as they go along. Indeed, we get a connecting sense throughout the film of what they were as children, who played what role before the cruel hierarchy of the streets yanked them apart and into themselves. They've seen a great deal by now, and they're too thick-skinned to absorb words any more...
...more interesting compositions were the Herbert Howells Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis. The Magnificat's Gloria section typified English choral music of the last hundred years. It was well-registered by the organist with enough reed mixtures to complement the thick vocal textures. The Nunc Dimittis, more restrained than the Magnificat, used extreme vocal ranges effectively...
Horace Walpole's correspondence, of course. No one knows it better than Lewis, a remarkably dedicated scholar who has kept the extraordinary project going since its start. As Yale and Lewis celebrated the undertaking's 40th anniversary last week, the edition stood at 37 three-inch-thick dark blue volumes. When the 50th and last volume is published (probably some time in 1978), the edition will contain, with meticulous annotation and indexing, 7,000 letters written or received by Walpole, the witty dilettante and social chronicler of 18th century England...