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...gravely concerned that the budgetary axe is threatening the Gen. Ed. program at this time and in the immediate future. We believe that one of the primary and urgent responsibilities of Harvard's next president should be to secure an endowment expressly for the General Education program at about $10 million. This sum would ensure close to an additional $800,000 yearly for the Committee's operating budget, bringing its total resources to about $1.7 million annually. Approximately $1 million could fund the large courses that are interdisciplinary in nature or taught by professors outside Arts and Sciences...
Impetuosity, winner of the Blue Grass Stakes (many Blue Grass winners have gone on to win the Derby) has drawn the outside post position, and should he win, it could be considered a minor miracle. His stable mate. Twist the Axe, who ran second in the Blue Grass, is well placed in the middle of the field and his running style, rushing from behind in the last part of the race, is well suited to the Derby distance...
...dealing with Twain's Huckleberry Finn in the story theatre manner is a much more ambitious project. It's rather like going at a glacier with a pick axe. Not that Twain's story is unmanageable. It's simply that its familiar episodes continually threaten to overwhelm the staging techniques that Bergreen uses to bring the ungraceful narrative to life. Few of his scenes take on an independence of their own and, as a consequence, the audience is left viewing something that looks more like conventional drama than improvisation (and more like high school pageantry than anything else) without experiencing...
...about sitting with her dying mother, the camera pans up the thin tube rising from her mother's arm to the vial of plasma, a sterile white building jutting vertically on the horizon seen through a window. And when Danny chops wood, the sun produces flare effects on the axe's downward lunge, a pleasant bit of work-glorifying imagery. For the great part of the film's duration, however, the audience is merely lulled into acceptance by the screen's warm colors and the Brahms music on the soundtrack...
...Hall of Infamy," a monthly feature on California's most strung-out freaks, the inaugural member is "Scorpion," who has just hacked his way out of the head of his alternate identity, Huey Lincoln Smith (1942-1969). He is pictured standing inside a ruptured skull, still holding the axe. The split-head image recurs in a story called "Last Hit." A girl shoots up and frazzles her mind until woolly monsters push through the top of her skull. The artwork in Bogeyman is the best in the series, coming to an uncanny height in the gaunt faces of terminal addicts...