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...purpose of an answering machine--no matter how amusing--is still to take messages. Good messages tend to elicit responses from callers, even those who have dialed the wrong number, say students. "It's a good feeling" when one of the messages says "nice message but wrong number," Yakir Siegal's '89 says...
Crystal sets up the obligatory Wellesley joke that is the biggest hit of the evening. Apart from that crack, a reference to Tommy's Lunch and a vague swipe at New Haven, the show lacked its characteristic Crimson tint. Even the presence of the Dean of Students didn't elicit the traditional Archie crack from the cast...
...just as Cricket and Baby Talk are dolls meant to be cared for, changed and charged up with generous quantities of batteries to operate their voices and make their faces move. Baby Talk comes up with provocative dialogue like "I love you" and "Turn me over" (lines certain to elicit a lively first-time response from Dad); Cricket sticks mostly to songs and stories...
...Washington, as in nature, every action tends to elicit an opposite reaction; but unlike nature, political reactions may not be equal. Already there are reports that legislation is being readied to rein in the NSC advisor and his staff. One idea is to prohibit their carrying out covert operations; another would be to require that the NSC advisor and possibly his top aides be made subject to Senate confirmation and make themselves available for congressional hearings, requirements from which they have been exempt as members of the White House staff...
...hope, therefore, that the History Department's decision to begin a program of faculty advising for sophomores--reported in a recent issue of The Crimson--will elicit broad and active participation from professors. A department's policy is dismaying when it assigns to seniors who write honors theses in British history a graduate student advisor who specializes in French history, and when it equates one grade on that thesis from another faceless graduate student with that of a distinguished senior faculty member. Under such a procedure, no one knows how many good young men and women are deterred from entering...