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Watson indicated yesterday that Harvard would not use freshmen players even if the Ivy League rescinds its ruling and most schools adapt to the new guideline...
Right off, the title is a giveaway. Can anyone imagine that the writer's name would have marquee pulling power, except for Portnoy's Complaint? Under the circumstances, it might have been cleverer to adapt the novel. After all, simulated masturbation poses no problem for the contemporary stage. However, it is almost a conditioned commercial reflex to exhume the early and lesser work of gifted...
When discussing the season, Stoeckel termed it "very successful." "I think people were expecting too much," he said. "Coach Restic was supposed to come in, and install a magical offense, but it took time." Whereas observers felt that the players would adapt to a new system faster just because they were from Harvard, "probably just the reverse occurred," Stoeckel noted. "Because we aren't a football factory, and aren't all on football scholarships we don't spend as much time on football, and it took us longer to adapt to the new system...
...Committee on the Health Services Industry will advise the Pay Board and Price Commission on how to adapt wage and price standards to doctors' fees and hospital charges. A Committee on State and Local Government Cooperation will advise on wage standards for public employees. An Interest and Dividends Committee of high Government officials, headed by Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur F. Burns, will try, presumably by jawboning, to persuade bankers to hold down loan rates voluntarily and corporate executives to hold down dividend payouts. Nixon will also ask Congress for standby authority to set legal ceilings on interest...
...church by showing lascivious nuns, self-mocking ghosts, corrupt priests and finally the trials of the painter Giotto, played by Pasolini himself. Giotto was a cornerstone of Renaissance painting; Pasolini plays him as an interior decorator. Boccaccio was famous for his ribaldry; Pasolini is notorious for his vapidity. To adapt the Decameron successfully, a film maker must come to his senses-of sin and humor. Pasolini's version is senseless down to the last vignette...