Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Epps's highest priority now is gaining the trust of other administrators, based on his performance of deanly duties for the Harvard student community. Epps says, however, that he wants to develop closer ties to black undergraduates, while acting in the interest of the entire community. He says he believes that many black students have isolated themselves from the "intellectual strength" of Harvard via self-imposed segregation. Many black students will undoubtedly continue to perceive Epps as "one of them." Epps is disturbed by such sentiments, and remains firm in his priorities. "While I would like to have their friendship...
...never bothers to turn on the lights, and as the early evening fades to night, the walls grow ever-closer to her now inert body. She is dozing on the sofa; the beer three-quarters gone. The ash-tray speckled and dusted with the remnants of four half-finished cigarettes...
...idea of a reviewing authority, including closer supervision by designated committees of the Congress, seems sound. In its hearings on the nomination of Gray, which are scheduled to continue this week, the Senate Judiciary Committee has been performing a most useful supervisory function and showing a high regard for the proper role of the FBI. What the FBI needs is a director?as well as an Attorney General, with whom he must work closely ?who possesses an unshakable sense of the difference between the pursuit of justice and the protection of political interests. The distinction is not all that...
Parts of this national roulette game fixed in favor of the upper brackets came to view as an election issue last year, when Senator George McGovern proposed sweeping reforms that would have forced the rich to pay taxes far closer to their supposedly assigned level than they actually do. McGovern's tax goals, rather fuzzily calculated from the start, got badly tangled up in his corollary proposal to redistribute many of the tax proceeds to those on the lower end of the income scale. It happens that Author Stern personally favors a similar plan. But he is careful...
Women in Love. Ken Russell's lush adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's novel comes closer to the emotional spirit of the subject period than do any of his subsequent films, and his arty style is appropriate to Lawrentian descriptions of passion. Alan Bates tells how one eats a fig a provocative Glenda Jackson dances before a herd of cattle--these scenes are handled very well, but the social attitudes of the book are lost. Read it first...