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...years "in such a way as to form a purposeful and consistent program." To help in this planning, the administration has appointed an Undergraduate Program Advisor, Professor W.D. Carmichael. "Without an apparatus to patrol course selection," says Carmichael, a former Rhodes scholar, "concentration in the School could become aimless." His students, who range from "better-than-average to extremely good," Carmichael explains, are "carefully shepherded" in their approach to these "fascinating, challenging issues of public policy...
...audience is somewhat confused as to where worthiness lies within the film, it is not confused as to the worth of the film. Dassin has made a powerful movie of a powerful novel. Intellectually and emotionally compelling, the movie is a magnificent relief from aimless entertainment. It is one of the few recent movies that can qualify...
...pregnant. Her friend Helena (deftly played by Claire Bloom), a visitor in their garret, remains. Jimmy calls her an "evil-minded little virgin," but she becomes his mistress. In the end, his wife returns; the baby has miscarried and Alison is now broken enough to resume in resignation the aimless life in the attic flat...
...nation's survival. This limiting policy kept Franklin Roosevelt from moving ships and planes on Pearl Harbor eve because he thought the people would not understand warlike actions until "the aggressor" had struck the first blow. It led the U.S. to fight World War II under "the shamefully aimless policy banner of unconditional surrender,'' without any postwar aims. Today, as in Hitler's day. the U.S. is up against an enemy with a purpose, plan and even a sort of public philosophy that aims far beyond the mere survival to the kind of world the enemy...
...still, hot, muggy Saturday night in New York, the kind of night that drives families out of their apartment houses and homes into the streets and parks, onto their tenement fire escapes, and into their autos for long, aimless cruises along the webwork of the city's highways-the kind of sense-dulling night that makes people hope for something to happen to take their minds off the weather's oppression...