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Daniel B. Bickford, a special Massachusetts assistant attorney general, yesterday submitted his recommendations to the state attorney general's office concerning Harvard's obligations to Indian students...
...Bickford's report involves the Indian College, a gift made to Harvard in the 1650's for the housing of Indian scholars. An Indian group at Harvard contends that the gift was a charitable trust, and that Harvard's use of the building was a breach of trust. They feel the University has an enforceable legal obligation to Indian students. The University does not agree...
...Bickford's report ends one phase of the controversy over the case, which has continued for over a year. Bickford was appointed last spring by State Attorney General Robert H. Quinn to investigate Harvard trust involving Indians...
...Peter Yates' overall handling of the mise en scene. He uses the Boston setting with a realistic understatement that subtly characterizes the life of its underworld. The camera follows the actors to alienate them in Boston City Plaza, or attune them to the low-life sleaziness inside Hayes Bickford; and at a Bruins game, Dillon, the man who murders Coyle, says to Eddie, "there's fifteen thousand people rooting for the Bruins out there, and nobody gives a fuck about...
...back, jolly film, rich in resonance, full of scrupulously affectionate detail for a West that changed too fast and too often ever to be called "Old." It is a wry paean to a life of crime, and displays a robust contempt for law, order and the encroachments of civilization. Bickford, as dexterously played by Hopper, shows signs occasionally of becoming a kind of surrogate James Dean, a prairie rebel without a cause. Hopper started working in films about the same time as Dean (they appeared together in Rebel Without a Cause), and in rather the same style. But Hopper...