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...Crimson. But we do need to keep our records in order. If you could be so kind as to fill out the enclosed checklist and mail it back, we will prepare your study card for you." The letter included a stamped envelope addressed to a Mrs. Elizabeth Butterfield, assistant registrar...
...years passed, and the undergraduate became an alumnus. Mrs. Butterfield moved over to the Social Studies office, where she made dozens of new friends to go along with the legions of old ones. About two years ago, the alumnus stopped in to see her there...
...they agreed that the state of affairs in the world had taken a turn for the worse since the early 1970s. The were both pleased that the Indochina War had ended, but they acknowledged that evil was still widespread--and people seemed less willing to fight it. And Mrs. Butterfield was worried about her husband, Lyman H. Butterfield, professor emeritus of History, who had not been well...
...that point in his life, the alumnus had been having a tough go of it. Nothing had seemed to be going right for him. But as he sat with Mrs. Butterfield, he felt the first feeble rays of optimism beginning to light things up. He left her office much happier than when he entered...
...transitions between conversation and performance mask perhaps the only consistent structural flaw in the film. In one sequence Robertson tells a story about an old harmonica player he met with Helm years ago, then Scorsese cuts to Paul Butterfield wailing away on his harmonica. Helm speaks of the great Southern blues men-and presto, we see Muddy Waters (whose rendition of "Mannish Boy" is one of the high points of the film). The idea is a good one, but its execution is a little too smooth, too obvious...