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Another trademark of the non-initiate, to be avoided at all costs, is the simple breakdown of reading into the categories "Required" and "Supplementary." Better by far is a straight alphabetical listing with no further classification. The list should of course be lengthy, but it is always necessary to save certain critical works for passing reference during lecture. [See "Passing Reference...
Oddsmakers (with the exception of the CRIMSON prognosticator) seem to favor Yale by at least a touchdown and a statistical breakdown bears out their predictions...
...reason for last week's sit-in has nothing to do with Gov. Volpe's imaginary "nation-wide conspiracy." The sit-in was the result of the breakdown of the welfare system, not its cause. Volpe's demagogic charges of conspiracy, like the conspiracy charges which have been brought against the welfare mothers in court, are no more than a smokescreen to protect the government at the expense of the citizens it was elected to serve. There was no conspiracy involved in last week's sit-in, and the defendants should be acquitted...
...Bottomley, the dogged law-professor-cum--special investigator, (Henry Fonda plus moustache) who has been commissioned to track the killer down. Aside from a brief interlude in which Bottomley confesses his secret worry--"I'm beginning to like this"--to his wife, the interrogation and, predictably and inevitably, the breakdown of DeSalvo takes place against a searingly white background. Once you've mulled for six or seven seconds over the symbolic significance of the white, the remainder of the scene provides only a pain in the eyeballs...
...overall effect, however, was not the stimulation of fuller debate. The hecklers' chief accomplishment was generally to disrupt meetings and render the candidates momentarily speechless. Wallace alone found a use for the barrackers. He pointed to long-haired protesters as "anarchists," as exemplars of the breakdown of order and respect. When the hecklers booed, Wallace bowed and blew them kisses. "They got me a million votes," he said, adding that he needed the hecklers; silence caused him to flub his lines more than once. But late in the campaign he ran into a reverse form of hectoring. Lank-haired...