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...YORK--The Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles (CARP), the higher-education affiliate of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, plans to expand its activities to an additional 300 campuses nationwide this fall...
Robin Williams' Garp is strictly from Ork; he appears to be visiting his role rather than inhabiting it. Even John Lithgow, who plays Roberta Muldoon, the transsexualized onetime tight end, fails to give his usual gifted portrayal of an eccentric. Only Glenn Close, as Carp's mother, a feminist heroine, escapes from the bland rhythms of the film to cut a few strongly individualized capers...
...reason for Carp's appeal is easy to identify: This is the story of a fellow whose family comes first, despite distractions such as a mother who attracts fanatics and a best friend who has never quite made it as a woman. Garp's infectious, good-humored and loving approach to life is summarized when he compares his own modest literary success with his mother's: "The same nobodys are going to line up not to buy [my new book]. Now I've just read that my mother's novel is going to be translated into Apache...
...terrible that CARP campaigns on campus but so acceptable for students to campaign for Jesus and give out New Testaments? We dislike the idea of any group's waging "an ideological holy war" of ridicule against any religion as the members of SCROD are so proud to have done. We hope that all Harvard students will show respect to anyone else's deeply held beliefs, even if Yale students do not. Martin Reichel '83 David E. Ruiz '83 Peter N. Smith...
...CARP is gearing up at Harvard The political tack failed at Yale, love, sex, and morality are apparently the new directives from on high While we give some credence to the ability of Harvard students to see the guile through the innocent acts of CARP underlings, perhaps a chapter of SCROD in Cambridge wouldn't hurt. It helps notify CARP how ridiculous all their plays and plans really are and shows them that they just can't win for so we like to believe). CARP and Rev. Moon offer students the opportunity for love without responsibility, for a loss...