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...middle-and upper-middle-class youth are romantically willing themselves into an underclass, thus perhaps opening opportunities for the rising and ambitious children of blue-collar workers. Anyone who reads the latest report of Harvard College's Office for Graduate and Career Plans must at least entertain the possibility...
Radicals simply should not entertain the idea that a temporary coalition with anti-war liberals can force Kissinger Nixon to withdraw all American forces from Indochina. Nor should they expect that anything short of a miracle could induce Congress to cut off appropriations, now that oil seems to be a major factor in prolonging the American military commitment to South Vietnam...
Given that the word "Theatrical" implies things pertaining to the theatre, I might suspect that these Hasty Pudding people want to entertain us. Put a song in our hearts, a laugh in our throats, and a tap in our toes. This, I have been told, is what the Hasty Pudding is all about-and so I tell you, for on the evidence of their show alone, you just might not guess what these people...
Sutherland has just finished a film for Warner's called Klute in which he co-stars with Jane Fonda, who plays a prostitute. (Currently, he has also joined Fonda and a number of other entertainers in expressing their willingness to entertain Gl's on American bases-as a counter to the Hope-Raye junkets to Asia.) And he's also completed a cameo appearance in he screen adaptation of Trumbo's Johnny. With associations like that it's only natural to ask how Hollywood views his political involvement...
...members of the University acquainted with the Greek regime, Harvard's willingness to entertain Sioris came as a bitter shock. The Francis Jones Professor of Greek Literature, Cedric H. Whitman, summed up the general feeling about Sioris: "He poses as an opponent of the regime, but it's impossible and ridiculous because he would not be in such a high post if he had something against them. He's a real minion of the colonels, and a hypocritical...