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...writing to compliment Crimson reporter Jacob M. Schlesinger for his sensitive and intelligent articles on the six Kennedy Institute fellows. As a reporter, I especially appreciated Schlesinger's grace in reducing hours of interviews to a few essential phrases. Despite his success, however, people are asking me what the devil I meant about Wadsworth, butterflies and newspaper reporters. Please let me clarify...
...cannot be said that their stories believably mesh or that as a result, Rich and Famous-an adaptation of Old Acquaintance, the 1943 Bette Davis-Miriam Hopkins catfigh-ever fully grips one's emotions. It is a shifty little devil, never quite deciding whether it is trying to say something serious about the nature of fame and riches (and, more important, love and sex in the feminist age) or if it is just out for a good time. Still, when it relaxes and allows its bitchy nature full play, it can be entertaining...
...Forty thousand in the stands, 20,000 on the field, and those without tickets could picnic on Soldiers Field outside and still hear the music. Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and the rest (assuming they don't have stomach flu, shoulder cramps, or whatever) could bash out "Sympathy for the Devil" from a stage adjacent to the big Crimson "H." For Harvard the advantages are obvious: a new image of hipness, relevance and public service of the highest order, and, one suspects, a lucrative financial reward...
...cruelest is to be published this week. Cat Hater's Handbook, subtitled The Ailurophobe's Delight (Avenel; $2.98) and illustrated by Tomi Ungerer, goes after cats as if they were creatures of the devil (some people think they are). Ailurophobe Author William Cole contends that cats are cruel, treacherous, unloving, smelly and parasitical. Cole assails the vaunted feline IQ, quoting a scientist at the American Museum of Natural History as saying that "a judgment from the literature would put the intelligence of cats below dogs and above rats." According to another researcher, the cat "is no philosopher...
Still, there were those who thought Gutenberg's invention was the work of the devil, and there are many writers who refuse to countenance a glowing screen above their keyboards. Screenwriter Jeffrey Fiskin (Cutter and Bone) decided against one: "Testing a machine, I programmed out the. The processor also removed thesis and theocracy. I thought: 'Do I want one of those, or do I want to add to my wine cellar?' The wine cellar won." John Updike speaks for many colleagues: "I am not persuaded that the expense and time it takes to learn the machine would...