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...often it's the men who'd be reformed. Playboy Cary Grant, in the 1957 An Affair to Remember, meets chanteuse Kerr on a long cruise and, at nearly the first stop, takes her ashore to meet his aged mother. By the end of the voyage they've agreed to test their love by waiting six months before meeting again at the top of the Empire State Building ("the nearest thing to heaven"). The ending, which I'll just say involves painting and walking, makes this film all-time romantic soaper, and Kerr and Grant the ideal middle-aged lovers...
...Anne of Green Gables novels, set in Prince Edward Island, the titular character is constantly engaged in back-and-forth bickering with her classmate and rival, Gilbert Blythe. When PEI visited the Bright Hockey Center for an exhibition contest yesterday, it was a similarly give-and-take affair, as Harvard’s freshmen powered the Crimson to a 6-3 victory. “I thought both teams battled very hard,” said Harvard coach Ted Donato ’91. “I give PEI a lot of credit—they really stuck with...
...Shaffer's 1970 play, which he adapted for the 1972 film, Andrew Wylie is an aging writer of mystery novels, living well but not comfortably in a home whose gadgety furnishings reflect his obsession with game-playing. The reason for Andrew's discomfort: his young wife is having an affair with her hairdresser, Milo Tindale. Enter Milo into Andrew's lair. The older man has an attractive, illegal proposal for Milo that could make them both rich and happy. But that's just a teaser to Andrew's much darker scheme - one that will bring a policeman to inquire about...
...About a year ago, Harvard students were up in arms: someone was trying to take their liquor away. Back then, the culprit was the Boston Police Department, who had decided to turn the Harvard-Yale tailgate into a dry affair. The students’ indignation seemed a little misplaced. After all, the police’s responsibility is to enforce the law, and inconveniently, that law says no liquor under...
...administrator, not a guidance counselor, and if Council members want to work on serious issues, they must be willing to take criticism. It’s high time the UC got over itself. It is, after all, a body chartered by the University, not an independent organ.Broadly, this whole affair speaks to the larger problem of the overblown sense of entitlement among undergraduates, a theme former College Dean Harry R. Lewis ’68 stressed in his 2005 book “Excellence Without A Soul.” This attitude of entitlement has been evident in recent days...