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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ALICE'S RESTAURANT. Arthur Penn has deepened and widened the scope of Arlo Guthrie's hilarious talking-blues record and transformed it into a melancholy epitaph for an entire way of life. Alternately funny and poignant, Alice's Restaurant may be the best film about young people ever made in this country...
...this western directed by Sam Peckinpah. Telling a violent yarn about a group of freebooting bandits operating around the Tex-Mex border at the turn of the century, Peckinpah uses both a fine sense of irony and an eye for visual splendor to establish himself as one of the best Hollywood directors...
Harvard, with improved teamwork, played its best game to date-its third straight win and second straight shutout. "We're improving every day," coach Bruce Munro said after the game. Yesterday's improvement could be seen both on the front line and in the backfield...
While self-consciously staying away from questions like Defense Department contracts or government-academic incest, Nader turned up other sorespots where the unversities have abdicated any sense of social justice. Universities are supposed to be the best information gatherers: why don't we know anything about the large corporations? The university-trained mind is supposed to zero in on important questions: why do the academics always wait for the government or the corporations to point out social problems? The universities obviously develop new roles for men to fill in the social web: why has M. I. T. placed so many...
Calvin Hill, one of the best players on Yale's football team last year, carried 23 times for 138 yards and two touch-downs to help the Dallas Cowboys edge the New Orleans Saints, 21-17. Sunday. Last week. Hill was the NFL Offensive Player of the Week...