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...left an open contract with McGovern. If he at any time felt I'm an embarrassment I would abide by his judgment. But as I sit here today, I'm firmly convinced that I'm not a detriment to the ticket. I'm an asset to the ticket. The Eagleton poll-that's my stomach-says that Eagleton is now a household word and that the people are for him. I'm on the upswing with the people. You can't have those women splashing in the water in Hawaii to give...
...although this was a group of well-matched, dedicated performers who obviously loved what they were doing, it is only fair to say, from the standpoint of structural clarity, that they loved individual phrases to the detriment of the overall design--the forest-trees syndrome. The late George Szell, when asked why his interpretations of the classical repertoire could not be warmer in tone, gave a gourmet's response: "I cannot pour chocolate sauce over asparagus." The metaphor, though exaggerated, describes to some degree what happened in the first half of Monday's concert--thick, sensuous topping (quite enjoyable...
Drug use is one area where the gap is large. Gambril stated to me that he wouldn't allow a known and regular drug user to stay on the team: that it's illegal and a detriment to the team and Harvard. Yet the majority of the team, including some of his stars, at least occasionally smoke dope and a number are into or have been into considerably heavier trips. The upperclassmen report that Benn Merritt and Harold Miroff were beginning to grasp something of the context of drug use here and finding it less horrifying than they had feared...
True enough. But freelance Film Critic Sandra Shevey, who conducts an adult course at New York University called Myth America in Movies, argues that masculine components dominate contemporary culture to the detriment of all art-including films. "The consistencies of a patriarchal society are science, reason and law," Miss Shevey says, "and in a matriarchal society they are art, magic, spir ituality and mystery. These are the qualities that women could bring to films." Critic Shevey maintains that the image of women in movies has hardly improved since D.W. Griffith's damsels in distress, and is still stuck...
...Catholic Church does not start responding more directly to women, an increasing number of the very aware and highly talented newly autonomous women, including a large contingent of Radcliffe students, will permanently shut out the Church as a viable life influence, to both their and the Church's detriment. It is precisely because women within the Church have not been tainted with the positions and intoxications of male power that they offer the best hope of saving the Church from the increasing fragmentation and irrelevance that Catholics are experiencing...