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Kiely's proposals also encompass a plan originally suggested by Dean K. Whitla, director of the Office of Tests, under which students would be allowed the option of taking a "Field Tutorial" year away from Harvard for regular course credit...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: Faculty Council Discusses Residence Policy Changes | 3/9/1973 | See Source »

Traditionally, America has rushed to repair the damage wrought by U.S. aims abroad. Surely, this time, that tradition should encompass aid to the two countries so long besieged: both Viet Nam and the U.S. There is much chance for action at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Postwar US.: The Scapegoat Is Gone | 2/5/1973 | See Source »

...from the I Ching: The earth in its devotion carries all things, good and evil, with out exception. The trick, of course, is to retrieve such knowledge from abstraction, to release it from the prison of rhetoric and piety, until it seems to grow out of, and even faintly encompass, the pain of a passionate lifetime. This Christmas, for $8.95 and in 673 pages, that is one of several miracles John Gardner offers. ·Timothy Foote

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Magic Realism | 1/1/1973 | See Source »

...singing and dancing in Lost Horizon. The word, that magic electricity in the film business, went out: somebody fresh and exciting had arrived. Soon it became time to cast the movie adaptation of Broadway's Forty Carats. What was needed was a deft comedienne who could also encompass the transformation from faceless widow to a sparkling "older woman" who carries on an affair with a 20-year-old boy. An Elizabeth Taylor, perhaps. Producer Mike Frankovich wanted Liv Ullmann-so much so that he was willing to have the part rewritten to suit her, lowering the matron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just an Ordinary, Extraordinary Woman | 12/4/1972 | See Source »

...students now living off-campus, 200 of these are predicted to return if the overcrowding subsides. Classes, from large survey courses to seminars, are subscribed far beyond capacity. Numbers have doubled or tripled in the classrooms and faculty members are under intense pressure to expand themselves to encompass all their students and they find it impossible...

Author: By David J. Scheffer, | Title: Sleepwalking Through the Halls of Coeducation | 11/27/1972 | See Source »

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