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...Dartmouth Review, a fledgling student weekly embroiled in controversy with Dartmouth College over its name and conservative editorial bent, has released a letter from President Reagan lauding its editors for their "fine efforts" on an "impressive paper...

Author: By Charles D. Bloche, | Title: Reagan Note Boosts Dartmouth Review | 10/17/1981 | See Source »

...Hell-bent or Heaven-sent [A minor retrospective.]--In the Mean Streets you watch him and feel nervous, conservative. He's out there on the edge, way out there, pushing it, chancing it, going much, much too far, and you wish he'd stop it. He's a compulsive gambler named Johny Boy who flouts all the rules of the petty Mafia, who never shows up even when it's most important, who just won't behave, and he seems live to make it all worse. It's pathological, but he won't quit. It makes you feel mealy...

Author: By F. MARK Muro, | Title: DeNiro | 10/15/1981 | See Source »

...Unless [police] are really bent on fabricating the evidence" at tomorrow's hearing. Estis said, he expects Judge Thomas W. Keegan to hand down an "adjournment in contemplation of dismissal' ruling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Estis Case | 10/7/1981 | See Source »

...created a wave. The public agreed the man could do little wrong. Even when he went electric at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965. enraging many "purists", Dylan captured a horde of new fans. But religion does not pay. The erstwhile "conscience of a generation", has become an outcast bent on avoiding (or so it seems) the path to popular redemption. Long-time admirers abandoned Dylan, feeling betrayed, while many critics stopped reviewing his offerings, believing the exercise pointless. It is an unjust dismissal, for all Dylan has done is to go on singing what he feels. While...

Author: By Antony J. Blinken, | Title: After the Flood | 10/3/1981 | See Source »

Organization bent over laughing. Then she stood up and wiped the rouge from her face with my freshly cleaned towel, and I realized that she was Procrastination. Organization had been only a grumpy Procrastination in tailored clothes and cosmopolitan make...

Author: By Robert M.mccord, | Title: A Harsh Mistress | 10/3/1981 | See Source »

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