Word: barrete
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...dashing young Harvard professor was stopped by a reporter from the Boston Herald. The professor, Everett Mendelsohn, was asked, "Who would you like to haunt tomorrow?" Mendelsohn replied that "I wouldn't mind haunting Governor Ross Barret of Mississippi, and I think I'd wear a white sheet while I did so he'd feel at home. And all editorial writers who too easily commit the nation to dangerous actions in these troubled times...
Mendelsohn speaks of science in terms of social responsibility. True, he seems more interested in teaching these days than in haunting anyone. Thirty-three years after his run-in with the Herald reporter, though, one can still see the outline of Ross Barret's ghost in the polished figure of Everett Mendelsohn...
...front-page story on campaign finances in Friday's paper gave the wrong totals for the gubernatorial candidates' campaign funds. The figures given in the story represent only money in the candidates' campaign checking accounts, not their campaign's total funds. Keneth A. Bamberger '90, finance date Michael J. Barret '70, said Friday that Barret has approximately $290,000 in funds currently, not only the $102,559 in his checking account...
SPARKY, A PIT BULLTERRIER WITH A sweet disposition, gets run over by a car, and Victor Frankenstein (Barret Oliver), his 10-year-old master, determines to revive him using a microwave and a toaster. FRANKENWEENIE sounds like pure Tim Burton, and it is. The 27-min. Disney comedy, made in 1984 and now released as a home video, marked the debut of the director of the Batman blockbusters. This ripe tale has intimations of Burton's Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands: the undead and a wild child sundered in suburbia. But Burton's Batmanic surrealism is plenty evident here...
...revolutionary change, says Barret, must be achieved by working within the public school system, not be abandoning...