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...Howard Hawks, who can get to the point and then stick to it until the last laugh has been squeezed out. Sometimes such people tried to cram too much into too small a space. But it is far easier -and more fun-for the moviegoer to try to absorb too much than to try to keep his spirit up while hiking through a blank space...
Golden Opportunity. Yet the U.S. farmer has little reason to doubt that over the long run, the world market will absorb as much as he can grow. The Department of Agriculture estimates that the- tonnage of U.S. crop exports will climb about 60% by 1985. To begin with, world reserve stocks of wheat and some other grains have been dangerously depleted by recent crop disasters, and will have to be rebuilt...
...contemporary critical scene has yet to absorb such a blow. While Dada was a shameless exposure of all that has been considered "holy in art," it was propelled by a laughter going so deep that a topsy-turvy admiration set in. This admiration clapped for the funeral of the "holy in art" and substituted a new formula holiness--founded in' a 'mix of playfulness, curiosity, and contradiction. And so is bred the Dadaist caricatuue of the seventies...
...that time, Radcliffe CHUL members agreed to drop their strict insistence on maintaining a 1 to 1 sex ratio at Radcliffe and to allow a decrease--1.18 to 1-- in the number of women at the 'Cliffe. In return for that concession, the Harvard CHUL members agreed to absorb 82 spaces from Radcliffe and also to convert 100 places at Radcliffe usually held by freshmen into upperclass rooms by converting Claverly into a freshman dorm...
...predicts that the number of undergraduates entering the housing pool next Fall will be 140 students larger than this year, with half of that increase--caused by the second year of 2.5 to 1--taken up by the second half of the Continental. However the Houses will have to absorb the 70 additional students, in addition to the 50 or 60 undergraduates spots from Radcliffe. Although the result will be over-crowding in many Houses, Collier says, the situation will not be as serious as it was in the sixties before the construction of Mather House...