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The first game of the Harvard football season was delightful. The Crimson backs plunged through wide holes conveniently cut by the line, Crimson linemen effectively harassed Lehigh ball carriers, the Harvard band was funny, and Harvard won, 27-7.

Author: By Joseph M. Russin, | Title: Crimson Power Crumples Lehigh, 27-7 | 10/1/1962 | See Source »

Last week Mr. President opened in Boston-and the result was something like a Republican rally in Natchez, Miss. The show proved to be so thin that the audience got the bends. The critics tried to be kind-but failed. Said the Record American's Elliot Norton: "Although it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway: President Flintstone | 9/7/1962 | See Source »

Moore writes of joke-words (squarsons and squishops are clerics who are also squires), long words (honorificabilitudinity, meaning merely "honor"), and grim words (heresy originally meant merely "private opinion," and in the shift of meaning to "private, sinful error" can be read a whole history of religious persecution). Sometimes he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Squishops & Jobbernowls | 8/17/1962 | See Source »

Ingmar Bergman needs no praise for those Brattle patrons who saw his delightful Smiles of a Summer Night. And just as that earlier, lighter master work examined the forms and varieties of eros, so The Seventh Seal probes the modes and species of fides. Every form of Christian faith seems...

Author: By John E. Mcnees, | Title: The Seventh Seal | 8/16/1962 | See Source »

These performances are certainly worth seeing. But it is the few scenes (like the two I've mentioned) that make El Cid some thing special. All in all, there are worse places to spend three hours these humid, humdrum days than the H.S.T. One word of warning, however: Cambridge kids...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'El Cid' | 8/9/1962 | See Source »

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