Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first thing to look at is geography," Peter K. Gunness '57, Director of the Financial Aid Office of Harvard College, said. He compared the mailing of applications with election returns, in which results come in last from the rural and Southern areas of the country. He said that the suburban and prep school students are counseled better than applicants from lower income groups so that the former would tend to send in applications earlier. He added that the growth of suburbia contributes to the rise in applications...
...audience is introduced to a panel of four "experts." We are told they will conduct a discussion of race relations. All the participants are easily recognized: there is John Benjamin, a Jewish liberal who has been in the vanguard of the civil rights movement; Harley Marshall, the waspish director of a Christian anti-Communist league; Nubo Okuni, an unyielding black militant; and Willie Woods, the epitome of the Negro who's made it. The audience is asked to play the role of their reasonable and sympathetic listeners...
FROM THAT POINT on, Riot is an intensely personal experience. Visually and sensorially, it is far more harrowing than anything in 2001. Through the combined efforts of choreographer Elizabeth Martin and technical director Robert Seay, I found myself trapped in the center of the looting and sniping. It all begins in wild exhilaration--radios blare, clothes are thrown about, girls scream wildly. Then with strobe lights and recordings, the shooting surrounds you. When it ends, just a few groaning bodies remain. Real catharsis is denied...
...director, Milos Forman, appears in a film clip at the beginning of the movie to give an idea of what his film is about. He says that when it came out in Czechoslovakia, forty thousand firemen resigned, and in order to appease them he had to say that the firemen in the film were actually symbolic representations of society. But then, in a real comment about himself, he undercuts everything he has said by stating that the film is just about firemen. Forman presents a simple story that might easily be loaded with meaning--but he denies that...
...four patients entered the infirmary at 5 p.m. yesterday, Yale Sports Information Director Charley Loftus said, adding that they are being held for 48 hours as a "precautionary measure." Loftus and Dr. Isao Hirata, who is caring for the ailing players, refused to speculate about whether or not the four would be able to play on Saturday...