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...have done right to take his case to the people as he puts it. But before long Harvard must itself bring the Holcombe case before the people. Allegations of institutional and personal racism in the University's dealings with Holcombe, for instance, cannot be thoroughly explored under a cloak of secrecy. The University cannot simply say that an investigation is being conducted; a complete, impartial and open investigation must be undertaken and completed soon. For its part, Holcombe's union must also break its silence on his case, and stop forcing Holcombe to carry the full weight of the suspension...
Restic, who was reportedly receiving feelers from the New York Jets and Colgate University football teams through cloak and dagger discussions earlier, this season, confirmed the sudden development...
...Palm Desert, Calif. Lee left Columbia University for an acting career, went to Hollywood in 1916 and directed several silent movies, including Doomsday, starring Gary Cooper. When the talkies killed the silents, the adaptable Lee quickly met the challenge by turning out the grim, chilling Derelict and a cloak-and-sword drama, The Count of Monte Cristo, with equal dexterity. He retired in 1945 to his San Fernando Valley ranch but came back in 1959 to produce The Big Fisherman...
...anchorite St. Anthony, Matta el Meskin was once an affluent young man-a prosperous pharmacist. At the age of 29, heeding Jesus' call to "sell what you have," he disposed of his two houses, two cars, two pharmacies, gave the proceeds to the poor and, keeping only a cloak, devoted himself to prayer and asceticism. He is out of the world and yet still of it. From his cell, where he lives mainly on bread and water, he has written more than 40 books and pamphlets, most of them scholarly books on church affairs, directed the total rehabilitation...
...creation of fiction awes him. "It is one of the most phenomenal human achievements," he says. "And I have never done it." Instead, he must do "detective work - find out about the things about which I have no direct experience." These, of course, offer metaphors in which to cloak such observations - they are never direct mes sages - that he cares to share with the world...