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...Harvard Undergraduate Council, born with the Harvard Policy Committee after the dissolution of the lightly regarded Harvard Council on Undergraduate Affairs in 1965 hasn't done the job. "The HUC has probably become irrelevant," Lawrence M. Lawrence, a former member says--"there was so much hope in the early fall--of ending parietals and forcing the University to disclose the nature of all its financial investments--and now there are only ashes...
...Born in Russia 20 years before the revolution, Sorokin was jailed repeatedly for spreading anti-Czarist propaganda. During the early stages of the Revolution he held several government posts, including secretary of the Prime Minister in the government of Alexander Kerensky...
...year-olds first, working up to the older men in ascending age-sequence. The law requires inducting the oldest men first within each age-group. The Defense Department has devised infinitely variable systems to achieve the desired age mix, all of which are un- random and penalize men born early in the calendar year, fiscal year, month, or season...
What makes this drab case history into a compassionate and likable film is the rare combination of fresh young talents that Italian-born Producer Joseph Janni (Darling; Far from the Madding Crowd) has recruited from British television. Terence Stamp, 28, is the only member of the company with any movie experience to speak of. John Bindon, 24, is an ex-merchant seaman who has never even acted before. Poor Cow is also the first film for TV Director Kenneth Loach, 30, who has achieved a personal, idiosyncratic immediacy with a hand-held camera and ad-libbed dialogue that sounds natural...
...Quota. Wolfe was a myth-sized American natural (6 ft. 6 in. and 240 Ibs.), born in the mountains of North Carolina. His eating, his boozing, his lovemaking, his flashes of temper and his formidable output of words, spoken or written, were indulgences on a massive scale. His self-pity and his ruthless use of others, both in fiction and in reality (his own family, mistresses, editors), made it plain to friends and perceptive readers that Tom Wolfe asked more of life than he had the talent to pay for. So harshly did he caricature his native Asheville that...