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Like few other Hollywood directors, this one embraced multitudes: Gunga Din and James Dean, Cary Grant and Anne Frank. Exploiting the movies' passion for teamwork, he wrote gags for Laurel and Hardy, struck the first sparks for Tracy and Hepburn, directed Fred and Ginger in their most sublime pas de deux (Never Gonna Dance, from Swing Time). And yet, in Alice Adams, A Place in the Sun and Giant, he displayed an affinity for ambitious outsiders with their noses pressed against the frosted window of the American dream. Maddeningly meticulous, he could earn a laugh by simply waiting...
While Yale has about 15 of this type of group and Princeton also has several, Harvard has only two men's groups. And, until recently, there was only the Krokodiloes; the other men's singing group at Harvard the Din and Tonics, was founded...
Members of the two singing groups agree that rivalry among the two exists but is not particularly fierce. Din and Tonics member Ethan C. Anderson '86 says, "We take a lot more chances than the Kroks. We did our first dance number this year." He adds, "There is definitely enough talent at Harvard to fill two or more singing groups...
...Ecuador, he called for the "gradual disappearance of the intolerable abyss" between rich and poor, and appealed for land reform and medical and old-age protection for workers. At mountainous Latacunga, Ecuador, he met 250,000 members of deprived indigenous tribes, who greeted him with painted faces amid a din of pipes and drums. The Pope told them to oppose both the "unacceptable injustice" of their situation and the use of violence to bring social change...
...contemporaneous news footage. These black-and-white bulletins from the front trumpet the glory of the Empire in all its turbaned pomp, while providing hearty reports on wartime developments in the Asian theater. But the newsreels also serve a subtler purpose. Through their gung-ho descriptions of Gunga Din's descendants they present, unvarnished, Britain's official stance toward its colonies, a paternalism compounded of arrogance and affection...