Word: barrett
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...left in Hilles when the angels finally come to stifle Ali McGraw's death rattle amid strains of Mozart and Musak. Once those tears well up in Ryan. O'Neal's eyes, maybe the Law School will triple its scholarship program. Then alumni may make chaste suggestions for a Barrett obelisk or a Cavilleri mummy. Why, if he has not done so already, John Dunlop could turn over the Yard to Hollywood Rents and really cash in on the Love Story bonanza-Harvards' biggest impact on the public imagination since the glass flowers...
Harvard Graustark. Like the book, the movie takes the trite and true prescription and flips it: boy meets girl, boy gets girl, boy loses girl. Harvard Jock Oliver Barrett IV digs Rhode Island Social Zero Jennifer Cavilled. His family disapproves. He defies them and marries her anyway. Whereupon fate−that inconstant jade−does the couple in. There has not been such a wrong-side-of-the-tracks meet since Holiday (1938), in which Gary Grant announced that he had worked his way through college, causing Katharine Hepburn's jillionaire father to harrumph mightily...
Gary H. Barnes, author of the article and editor of the newspaper, charged that the university police were ordered by Chief of Campus Security Frederick Barrett to monitor activities of militant students. He said that Barrett passed the information to "close friends...
University spokesman denied the charges. Barrett, however, admitted that he had provided the F. B. I. with "information of a public nature," but "only when it had been requested...
Yesterday, despite several feet of snow, between 400 and 500 students rallied on the university campus to protest the arrangement between Barrett and the F. B. I. "The student body is up in arms," Barnes said. "With this incident taking place right after an attempt to fire a radical political-science professor, it has pushed things over the boiling point...