Word: basset
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appeasement. One student reminded this reporter that several Houses had even boycotted the elections of a student representative to ACSR in the first years of the committee's existence. "The rationale for the University's policies have absolutely no connection with what a little committee feels is ethical," Mary Basset '74 said...
Although most of the protesters say they have been out of touch with the University since their graduation, all agreed that student activism at Harvard has declined dramatically since the early 70s. "People just aren't thinking in the same critical way. The level of questioning has seriously declined," Basset says, adding with a nervous laugh, "I'm glad I'm not there...
...recurrent theme voiced by the protesters is that the University has made a conscious effort since the late '60s to admit a more inward-looking group of applicants, screening out social activists who might cause the University trouble. Cann, Basset and others believe this admissions policy has been most intensely implemented concerning black applicants. Cann suggests that the University has stopped admitting many blacks of working-class background, focussing instead on admitting blacks from professional families who will be less likely to take social-activist positions...
...Smokey and the Bandit. The judge was Burt himself, who will play the bandit opposite Sally Field as a hitchhiker and Jackie Gleason as a Texas sheriff who's trying to track him down. Burt's choice as the canine co-star was a two-year-old basset hound named Happy: "I picked the one that looked best in the bathing-suit contest. He was also the most congenial." How's that again, Burt? "I didn't think ego would be a problem in our working together," Reynolds explained. "His legs are shorter than mine...
...with happy incongruity in Ted dy Roosevelt's America, this Much Ado was all gingerbread and gingham. Benedick smoked cigars, wore a boater and, as he is played by Sam Waterston, looked like a dyspeptic basset hound...