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...unless one lives in Alan Dershowitz's world, it must be patently obvious, for all the well documented sociological and economic reasons, that the minority pool of applicants for highly competitive colleges will be a relatively smaller one than the comparable majority pool. No amount of wishful thinking can alter the effects of the pervasive disadvantages which minority students face at all levels of their education. While there is considerable room to improve the efficacy of identifying and recruiting talented minority students in the existing pool, substantial expansion of the minority pool will occur only when there is a fundamental...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ... and More | 1/25/1978 | See Source »

...unilaterally alter its procedure and structure if the Faculty Council decides not to send the changes to the full Faculty for consideration. Need we discuss the abuse of a self-regulating body? If the CRR and Faculty Council wish, at some time, to take an action outside of Harvard law, they will be able to rewrite the rules to suit them. There is room here for reform...

Author: By William A. Schwartz, | Title: Continuing Revolution: A Critical View of the CRR Reforms | 1/18/1978 | See Source »

...pleas to save her innocent daughter, prepares to single-handedly do battle with the Greek army. But at the last moment, after previously pleading for her own life, Iphigenia decides to face her tragic fate for the sake of a unified Greece, and mounts the stairs to the sacrificial alter in dignity and triumph...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: A Tragedy--but not a Total Loss | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

THESE FLAWS ARE amusing and tolerable, but they are overshadowed by a profound and blatant misinterpretation. At the end of the film, after Iphigenia has mounted the steps to the alter (they take forever to climb; the sequence is twice as long as it should be), and uttered her beautiful last line, "Sweet light, farewell," the winds rise violently and the army heads for the ships cheering, Iphigenia has not yet been sacrificed; Agamemnon cries out and dashes up the steps, while she, hearing his cry, struggles to escape from Calchas and his priests, who are pulling her, screaming, toward...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: A Tragedy--but not a Total Loss | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

Valentine's consequent attempts to win his wife back are both funny and touching. With the help of the real Valentino, Wilder convinces Annie that the real screen idolis a fellow who "only likes boys." But his charade fails to alter her illusions, and only then does the baker realize that the secret to gaining his wife's love lies in being himself. In these scenes Wilder displays a dramatic sensitivity which his more recent Mel Brooks roles have not allowed him to develop. The comedy and conflicts generated by this situation might have been sufficient material for a light...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gags And Other Buffoonery | 1/10/1978 | See Source »

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