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Minority students say that this responsibility is more the College's than theirs. Students are not in a position, they say, where they can even hope to alter long-held racial attitues and create an environment in which members of the Harvard community can develop a mutual respect...
Minority students say that this responsibility is more the College's than theirs. Students are not in a position, they say, where they can even hope to alter long-held racial attitues and create an environment in which members of the Harvard community can develop a mutual respect...
Still, suicides are hardly limited to students who cannot keep up academically or socially. The death of Rhonda Alter, 19, an attractive, intelligent and popular student who hanged herself last year, sent shock waves through Winnetka. "She had everything going for her, and no sign anything was wrong," says her teen-age brother. Last week a Winnetka resident overheard two youngsters coolly talking about suicide, "just like they were discussing what kind of socks to buy." Says...
...definitive form. In theory, film should be the same: an art machine as permanent as bronze replicas of a Degas dancer, as popular as the Model T Ford. In fact, film has become a most pliable plastic art. A wily producer, a finicky censor, even a TV executive can alter or destroy the film's shape, texture and meaning. Now the directors are playing at cinema surgery: Steven Spielberg has just issued a "special edition" of his 1977 hit, Close Encounters of the Third Kind. As one film critic observes: "People used...
...series like Dallas demands a certain kind of actor. It needs an ensemble of performers; the story is the star. Only team players need apply. Luckily, the actors wear their roles like alter egos. Jim Davis, 63, a veteran of hundreds of westerns, drawls modestly, "I'm Jock Ewing without the money." (He may be a bit too modest: each principal actor reportedly earns more than $250,000 a year from the show.) Ken Kercheval, 45, whose Cliff Barnes is obsessed with ruining J.R., says of the murder attempt, "Actually, I hope...