Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...student enrolled this fall in English 166, I would here like to declare my support of Professor Robert Kiely, in regard to the controversy surrounding the final examination in his course. I attended no review section and knew nothing of the exam's format or content before it was given. Had I, however, been informed of the details revealed by Professor Kiely and reported in The Crimson, I would have prepared in much the same manner as I did unaware of the review, and such information would not have altered my answers to the relevant questions. I believe furthermore that...
...revised in the '60's. In Sam Peckinpah's and Arthur Penn's films all social forces were culpable; villains sometimes wore badges and good men could revel in crime. But the mass imitators have not borrowed anything from these men except a violent surface, and have based the content of their films on empty hybrid genres like the spaghetti western. Our movie screens are now replete with dizzying, blood-soaked chaos, apocalyptic visions produced on an assembly-line...
...light of the proposed standardization of the course content, the suggested cut indicates that the problem is not really being conceived in terms of individuals...
...interesting in the film, though there is not much competition. She is a quivering little bundle of sadomasochism, helping the two drivers and destroying them at the same time. Unfortunately, Strick does not get around to concentrating on her or developing the character beyond a flat concept. He is content to let her quiver while he takes pictures of the honky-tonk at the side of the road...
What remains to be seen is the content of the sealed envelope given to Chief District Judge John J. Sirica with the indictments yesterday. Speculation has abounded in Washington that the documents tell the untold about the president's possible involvement, and that if forwarded to the House Judiciary Committee they may fan the flames of impeachment even faster...