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This year's Faculty agenda may center around issues left over from last year, but next year's actually looks fresher. Sidney Verba '53, the new associate dean of the Faculty for undergraduate education and chairman of the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE), will kick off discussion with CUE on what he calls "the rules relating to college study...
Almost on cue, three days after South African troops had begun to withdraw from Angola, Defense Minister Magnus Malan announced that they had captured a Soviet soldier, Nikolai Pestretsov, 36, in a convoy of SWAPO guerrillas and Angolan forces some 31 miles from the Namibian border. Two unidentified Soviet lieutenant colonels and two Soviet women also were reported killed...
...left a blotch on the skin, which was not realistic in closeups. Ever the perfectionist, however, Coppola wanted not only blood but bullet holes. Smith covered the actor's real skin with a false latex skin, putting both blood and tiny explosive discs in the space between. On cue the discs were detonated by means of copper wires, creating an authentic-looking bullet hole through which blood would pour...
Until videotape was perfected in the '60s, everything that the viewer saw at home was happening before his eyes. Mistakes were common. One writer remembers watch ing with horror as two actors who were supposed to be dead received an early cue and rose before the camera moved away. Nothing so clumsy happens in this series, but a close observer will hear Paul Newman fluff a line in Bang the Drum and see that after Andy Griffith spills a drink on his shirt in No Time for Sergeants, he does not change it for inspection the next morning...
...FINAL, and by far the largest, section of the book is the list of courses, divided by department. Many of the courses have lengthy descriptions written by the professors who teach them. Students rarely place much value on them, tending to rely more on the Confidential Guide, the CUE Guide, and most of all, word of mouth. The catalogue descriptions have a peculiar, stilted style that becomes almost hilarious in its repetitive affectation. Phrases like "explores the varied meanings and manifestations of..." and "a discussion of the emerging concepts, ideals, styles and genres and functions..." and "examines some...