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...addition, Eliot will alter all suite door locks so that students cannot leave their doors unlocked...
Brave People. Jackson was doubtless happier than the others. Against considerable odds and precedent, he had used legislative pressure to alter the domestic policy of another superpower. His amendment, to be incorporated in the bill that will probably clear Congress this year, was accepted on the basis of assurances from the Soviets that emigration would be stepped up and not impeded. Punitive measures against those applying for exit visas are to be halted...
...FEMINIST movement has had an enormous impact in the last few years on the way women think and speak about themselves, and about men. Any philosophy that alters our perception of ourselves must inevitably alter the art we produce, and so in poetry, fiction, journalism and photography women have been exploring what it means to be female in today's society...
...spring to another, although the true time of all events seems to be rooted in Fellini's imagination. The look of clothes, the political talk and the movies people go to see fix the period in the middle to late 1930s, although a casual remark or reference can alter the time abruptly 20 years into the past or future. There are no fixed boundaries here, just as there is no firm central character. A young man called Titta appears frequently and serves as a kind of unifying autobiographical surrogate for the director. But Amarcord is not about him really...
Fake or Freak. The author has warned that there must be no critical truffling in his works for deep-lying meanings. His word games in Harlequins justify the warning. Butterflies, however, may be chased. Nabokov, for instance, taught at Cornell University after emigrating to the U.S., and his clownish alter ego taught at "Quirn." The Oxford English Dictionary directs the student to "Quern," which derives in its first definition from a variety of languages, including old High German, Swedish and Russian ("Zhernov"), and means "a simple apparatus for grinding corn." The second definition is "a large piece of ice." These...