The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 12, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 4, 1963 Page: 4 of 8
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THE THRESHER
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 4, 1963
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"Janus" is here again. This col-
lection of prose, poetry, and pic-
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Its prime virtues are the light-
ness and directness of touch of
many contributons, contrasting
with the Ezra-Pound-plus pre-
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testing and documenting computer programs —
each one a different and exacting assignment.
Also of great interest to Gerald when he joined
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knows, too, that we'll need to fill thousands of su-
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he's getting the solid experience needed to qualify.
Right now, Gerald is working on a verification
sub-system for maintaining production control. It
consists of seven distinct computer programs that
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engineers. For more detailed information, get your
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booklet from your Placement Officer. Or write:
Western Electric Company, Room 6405, 222
Broadway, New York 38, N. Y. And be sure to
arrange for a personal interview when the Bell Sys-
tem recruiting team visits your campus.
Wester% Electric manufacturing and supply unit op the bell system
gazines. A brief review will re-
veal the variety of content.
PROSE FIRST. Charles De-
mitz has an hilarious fantasy
about doomsday in a dream-world
college: thei'e arc as many styles
and adroit allusions as there are
sentences. It is a deliberately con-
trived castle in the air, whose
fabric the author himself dis-
solves in the last sentence. ". . .
the entire administration build-
ing collapses in a mountain of
dust, flats, and stagehands."
By contrast, the contrivance of
Larry Connelly's moral story to
prove the irrelevance of fact-and-
figure historical research to the
flesh-and-blood event is heavy-
handed; in any case we knew as
much already. (He ends: ". . .
but he did feel the carbine fire
that dumped his belly in the
snow." That is cliche.)
GERALD O'GRADY, in a
critical essay, does some more
of his acrobatic correlating of
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In J*o y o u s jubilation over
such innocent inactivity, we
proudly profer the amicable Al-
ley Theatre's alliterative offer-
ing: "The Imaginary Invalid," by
Our Man Moliere, in which doc-
tors win a flacking. The AMA
has by now discouraged attend-
ance and set up a Siegfried Line
of spent hypodermic needles
around the Alley, but daunted
souls can always attend else-
where. A suggested destination
is the U. of St. Thomas, where
"The Tempest," an experimental
play by a rising young play-
wright, is offered Thursday and
Friday.
HANDS ACROSS the sea
Thursday as the River Oaks bash-
fully ducks its head and shuffles
its feet, coyly awaiting gargan-
tuan laughter that will perhaps
never arise. "Carry On Regard-
less" is the occasion and ear plugs
the attire for this latest sop to
the choco-malt set.
No, it is not a Walt Disney
rock candy epic. It's "The Little
Humpbacked Horse" and the Bol-
shoi Ballef, by Neddy Dingo.
Something to look back on fond-
ly as tests approach, the wind
scours the tundra, and porta-cans,
the glaciers of the future, creep
ever southward.
WITH TONGUE in cheek and
microphone in flowerpot, the
Hamlet, undaunted by rumors of
technicolor and forty years of
progress, adheres to its stringent
standard of age before quality:.
"The Jazz Singer." And a swell
flicker it was.
.Praise Loki, Western Civiliza-
tion is saved. To the thoughtful
souls who ponder our nation's
destiny, we can now say YES,
there IS a successor to the Doris-
Day cinematic-soapsuds milieu.
Its name is Lee Remick and
James Garner in "The Wheeler
Dealers." Fairly bursting with
4 high-energy schmaltz:, this little
bucket is guaranteed to scrub
crass dirty minds cleaner than a
whistle and twice as empty. Have
faith in the Loew's and ye shall
be fleeced.
THE PAEDIA, a Greek folk
ballet troupe on its first inter-
national junket, will appear next
Sunday in the Music Hall. On
the same night, the Bach Society
will sponsor an unusually varied
pj-ogram, featuring its own en-
semble and several guest artists
at St. John's School.
Never a quitter, the Houston
Grand Opera Association this
week assays the staging of its
second production of the season,
Puccini's "La Boheme." Lee Ve-
nora and Renati Cioni will sing
the leads, backed up by a 60-voice
chorus. Walter Herbert will con-
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Keilin, Eugene. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 12, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 4, 1963, newspaper, December 4, 1963; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth244901/m1/4/: accessed May 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.