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Though they have been in business only three years, Deaver Brown and Alexandre Goodwin, both 29, have grossed $6,100,000 so far in 1973, mostly from sales of their Umbroller. It is a clever little baby stroller that folds to resemble an umbrella on wheels. Already some 750,000 have been sold, and business is good enough that last week the entrepreneurs reduced the price from...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN made life hard for all the other silent comedians. He matched them, laugh for laugh, with slapstick as clever and inventive as anyone's. He could string gags together, then top off the series with a clincher timed just right. So could all the other great comics--but Chaplin left all competitors far behind because on top of all the slapstick he was the most spirited and sympathetic character on the screen. His comedies affect me in an obscure way. I laugh, as at any good comedy, but then I feel a delicate warmth spreading all across...
...argue for an end to private ownership of land, homes, factories and means of transportation. In much the same sense, editors at Time or Newsweek or The New York Times are free to view the Cuban Revolution as a positive step forward for mankind. It is a deep and clever North American deception to allow professor, scholar, editor alike, to say that they please when we know well that what they please is what we like. The bulls, once surgically restrained, receive all barnyard privileges. Harvard professors, in the aftermath of proper preparation, are allowed their civil liberties...
...shows a good deal of discernment when treating Lowry as a charming poseur. He quotes some apt lines from Auden's In Praise of Limestone that characterize those youths who are unable To conceive a god whose temper-tantrums are moral/ And not to be pacified by a clever line/ Or a good...
Even more disturbing than returning to Harvard after a year off and finding 60 per cent of the Freshmen proclaimed pre-med majors and the Young Republicans politically prominent, is returning to the stadium to hear the inanity of a once-clever band. Do they reek of censorship or stupidity? Anyone who slept through the first half of the BU game on Saturday must surely have recoiled upon awaking to the half-baked family jokes and TV tunes of our once-distinguished family of musicians. Cut the shit, band or find a new home! We remember when! Bob O'Brien...