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Unless you already find anthropology interesting, the courses at Harvard are unlikely to sell you on the subject. Most of the professors are good though not often brilliant in their fields, and few lecture well. Boyd Irven DeVore, William W. Howel and one or two others are both good and entertaining teachers, but most are both dry and cautious...
...clear last night whether Radcliffe would buy the land. J. Boyd Britton, administrative vice-president, said "it's a very strategic piece of land" because of its location opposite the projected fourth house. He declined to say, however, what Radcliffe might build on the site, or to speculate on the chances that the college would actually make the purchase. President Bunting could not be reached for comment...
...Harlan Ellison, Russell Rouse and Clarence Greene for dunking Richard Sale's crimson novel about the Hollywood prize scramble into a vatful of whitewash. The book described a rat race in which the victors were merely the best of breed. The movie describes a demiparadise besmirched by Stephen Boyd as a vicious nominee ("That rot inside" is his tragic flaw) who forgets that truth and beauty are the Only Real Rewards...
...played as high tragedy. "Do you bleed? Do you cry?" moans trampled Talent Scout Eleanor Parker. "I'm not some sort of garbage pail you can slide a lid on and walk away!" she adds. The less raunchy lines are disposed of in rounds of verbal pingpong. Let Boyd say "My head is splitting" (ping) and Wife Elke Sommer is sure to answer "So is our marriage" (pong). Milton Berle, Joseph Cotten, Jill St. John, Peter Lawford and Edie Adams all prove expert at the game...
Least Performance by an Actor: Stephen Boyd, who literally wrings his hands in moments of crisis. His portrait of a snaky, sniveling contender at the Oscar countdown should be shown exclusively in theaters that have doctors and nurses stationed in the lobby to attend viewers who laugh themselves sick...