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...area of graduate education, Bok said his main concern--beyond that of teaching scholars to teach--was to reduce the drop-out rate among grad students. Excess attrition, he said, "wastes fellowship money that we can no longer afford and, much more important, it squanders years of people's lives...
There is, however, excess calculation, both in Pinter's dialogue, and in the director's conceptions of entire scenes. Though the annual village cricket match is admirably staged, with flies swarming over ossified onlookers, and the Maudsleys running with grace and dignity, Burgess predictably hits a cricket home run every time at bat. And Pinter cannot deal with direct emotional response: a crucial Burgess-Leo dialogue is embarassing. B: "She cried when she couldn't see me." L: "How do you know?" B: "She cried when...
...call on him last week was a union delegation led by A.F.L.-C.l.O. President George Meany. Meany made it clear that if labor's wishes are not reflected in the Nixon strategy, then "we won't play." Chief among those wishes, Meany emphasized, was a tax on "excess" corporate profits...
Ephesus is over 400 pages long and contains no fewer than 55 chapters full of encounters, imbroglios, plots. Not all of them work, and occasionally the pace slackens. The author is vulnerable to charges of excess and lack of critical judgment. One may as well try to defend reality. The only rejoinder is how vivid and how much like life the book is. The late Randall Jarrell once defined the novel as "a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it." This is a novel. · Martha Duffy
Wilson inherited the house from his mother in 1951. It had been empty for years, but in an excess of ancestral pride, he promptly set about making repairs. He also tried to restore the building's function as a family center, but without much luck: his children preferred Cape Cod. "The croquet set I hoped would occupy [the children]-we always used to play croquet-is still standing by the front door, with nobody ready...