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...gets to save the planet. Sure, it wears a little thin when you see make-up streaks on the pale-faced night mutants. And the race-relations moral is ham-fisted. But if you're a Heston fan (and CP knows you are), this post-apocalyptic nightmare offers a decent thrill -- and a few chuckles along...
...kids who were nursed on slow-bouncing, soft, black rubber balls. Harvard's new reputation--and reality--as a meritocratic training ground for new generations of symbolic analysts has added a welcome twist to the squash world. Those students from public high schools, who might have had a decent tennis game but probably never played squash, if they even heard of it, have been introduced through friends and team members to the game...
...Paul's Church (News, Feb. 17). In lieu of praise for the conservation of an unusual civic instrument was all-too-Harvardian whining. The sundry 15-minute strikes on bronze bells are treasured hall-marks of many European cities and universities, and those peals operate as any decent public time-piece should--24 hours a day. Sadly, in a culture such as ours (which values asphalt and chain-link over bronze), peals like those in the campanile of St. Paul's are a rare treasure indeed. At a university which prides itself on the diversity of its community and whose...
...contradiction comes full circle when these same critics are quick to point out the abundance of vacation time and a decent, stable salary as attractive benefits to the profession. These are valid assertions, and many teachers enter the field for such selfish reasons. But I like to believe that the majority of the mentors in our public schools are there for the opportunity to help children understand their surroundings, past and present, in order to acquire knowledge and cognitive skills for use in future situations. The teacher, when confronted with the challenge of entering the classroom, embraces the daunting task...
Joel, an underachiever who lives with his mother and works at the Sub Shop, is intelligent but becalmed, up to his elbows in chopped lettuce and mayonnaise. His friend Will, a decent fellow, is a not-very-good businessman who manages his father's box factory and hangs on to the glossy life with his fingernails. But it's all spinning, faster each year: subdivisions, Sub Shop, Joel's raggedy '69 Impala, the box factory, the sad, slutty daughter of an old girlfriend so beautiful, so sad, that even then, back in high school, it hurt to look...