Word: failed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...take this opportunity to thank Professor Hoffmann and Professor Smith for their open support of Harvard's anti-apartheid movement. Although divestiture may not have a direct effect upon South Africa's racial policies, the symbolism of the effort to divest from firms with South African holdings will not fail to have an impact on the international scene. By questioning President Bok's statement and by earnestly supporting the efforts of the student community at Harvard (both inside and outside the classroom). Professors Hoffmann and Smith have encouraged us to become aware of our role in the world community. Vijaya...
...spirited, unsophisticated society to win ultimate victory over a high-tech dictatorship; the power of an individual to prevail against all odds, if he only has faith in himself. "I don't believe it," Luke says in Empire, when Yoda levitates a spaceship. "That," answers Yoda, "is why you fail." It is a complicated universe of the imagination Lucas has laid out to express his themes, and he has tirelessly overseen its evolution, directing the first film himself and assigning the other two to carefully selected subalterns: Irvin Kershner for Empire and Richard Marquand for Jedi...
...plot line is as simple as sin. Previously wed to each other, Amanda (Taylor) and Elyot (Burton) meet again on the terrace of a seaside resort in France. Each is on a second honeymoon with a fail-safe second mate. Amanda has chosen conventional, humdrum Victor (John Cullum), and Elyot has chosen humdrum, conventional Sibyl (Kathryn Walker). But Amanda and Elyot are blithe spirits: witty, sophisticated, selfish, mercurial. They skip off to Paris, make love again, tiff tempestuously again and, when discovered by the appalled Victor and Sibyl, steal off together again...
Finally, Harvard (unlike Yale, Princeton and Brown) lacks a Third World Center. Harvard and the Freshmen Dean's Office, in refusing to list Third World and Women's events on the official Freshman Week Calender, will fail to support its minorities and women once again. "The Third World Students Alliance and the Radcliffe Union of Students have the support of over 700 students who signed a position calling for the listing of these events, as well as the unanimous support of the Undergraduate Council. No, I do not dislike Harvard. I love it. However, everywhere Third World and woman students...
...hard to take Irene Selznick too seriously-but only sometimes. A Private View is the story of how a bright, spunky tomboy from a beach-front house in Santa Monica surmounted advantages and an insufferable marriage to become independent and a successful Broadway producer. Only a hopeless churl could fail to see that behind the privilege and luxury is a woman of uncommon perseverance and good sense...