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Things began on Friday afternoon, when a friend in Harvard's administrative hierarchy slipped him the word that he didn't get into Eliot House. For Mansley--the Montebank clan's silver-spoon-fed youngest generation (St. Mark's and BUtterfield 8)--it was a deliberate slur on his urbanity. Shaken and embittered and haunted by the persistent spectre of anachronism, Mansley did something a Montebank would never do; he went to the ISA Fair...
Those receiving grants for independent research are Eric G. Ball, professor of Biological Chemistry; Lyman H. Butterfield '30, lecturer on History; Edward H. Chamberlin, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy; David Gitlin, assistant professor of Pediatrics; James M. Henderson, assistant professor of Economics; and Georg H.B. Luck, instructor in Classics...
...conversation returned to the head of the table where Alfred Butterfield was talking not about groupers, nor queen triggerfish, nor toadfish, but sponge crabs. "Sponge crabs dress themselves up to look like sponges," he said, explaining that discriminating fish don't consider sponges good eating, "but little crabs are!" He went on, "We were determined to get them in the picture. We got some little sponge crabs. We left them alone because we wanted them to be happy. We didn't bother them, except to feed them, and didn't turn on any lights. And they didn...
...Reef, which started out as a twenty minute short, they sought to suggest the way life happens around a reef in the southern Atlantic less from the viewpoint of men than from that of the creatures themselves. There are no humans in the movie; and Producer Alfred Butterfield's commentary intelligently avoids the Disney practice of lending human characteristics to animals. The result is a restrained film which, due to fine continuity, seems remarkably real...
...Clinton Elliott. Like the camera-work, it is leisurely, following the pace of the creatures. Some themes, like the sea horse's, are really amusing. Though the commentary is occasionally too chatty, it is informative without being ostentatiously so. Thanks to the good taste and restraint of Producer Butterfield and his assistants Secrets of the Reef is a fine movie about...