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...week. The radio was droning out the full text of a long government communiqué ... Slowly, as the high-charge prose unwound, the reason for all the excitement began to dawn on the Muscovites: the Kremlin had decided to start testing its nuclear weapons again. Just 49 hours later, a brilliant flash lit the bleak plains of Central Asia, and a mighty bang echoed for miles ... The risk of atomic war still depends, as it has for years, on the simple decision of the man in the Kremlin. What is alarming is Khrushchev's new willingness to flirt with terror. Conceivably...
...MOVIE STAR? As far as movie acting, yeah, sometimes people expect you to be something more than you are. Really, you're just doing a job, applying some techniques you've learned. But it's ruined a lot of people. You tell somebody like Marlon Brando that he's brilliant and exceptional and you ruin his whole life--all of a sudden this Mid-American guy feels like a fool. But, you know, you become what you become in life, and you don't sit and think about it. You just go ahead and do it. You've entertained some...
...record, and maybe a younger Norah Jones fan, liking the single with Charles, will try to explore his back catalogue. It helps out both parties, but is rarely the kind of thing that makes for a good record, let alone the album of the year: Charles is doubtless a brilliant songwriter and an incomparable singer, but how good can an album be when each song features a radically different incorporation of voices? An album is a cohesive statement, a unified document in music: this selection as the best record of the year shows the way the award is consistently used...
Still more disturbing are the sensationalist calls for a vote of no confidence and resignation. Given Summers’ apparent support from the Harvard Corporation, he clearly isn’t going anywhere. Surely a collection of the most brilliant academics in the world should be able to avoid the temptation to flaunt their credentials in a petty power-trip. Surely they realize that the best course of action for the overall well-being of the University is measured cooperation...
This is perhaps because the purpose of the award —whether to honor a brilliant actress sincerely, to allow the Pudding members to interact with a celebrity, or to create publicity for the Hasty Pudding—has never been entirely clear. While the award is certainly a work of levity, it attracts the most serious of thespians. In 1967, Bob Hope was made the first honorary member of the Hasty Pudding (the following year, Paul Newman was officially named Man of the Year). But the award was treated as a joke; The Crimson reported...