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Virtually everybody around here these days knows about Counterpoint, the Harvard feature film where Professor John Finley '25 falls dead in a mock-tragic assassination scene. Information about it has been disseminated very, very successfully. Counterpoint has been doing the Harvard "circuit" lately--in a tentative way--and it's been playing to nearly sell-out crowds at a dollar a head so far. Even though the titles are still in the lab and the film is running without them. Even though there's no synchronised sound (prohibitively expensive) and parts of the picture are fuzzy and overexposed. Even though...
That's almost as far-fetched as the real plot of Counterpoint, the Eliot house film which has John Finley getting shot in front of the Plaza. The cast also includes Edward Kennedy, Leonard Bernstein...
...your article pointed out, Greeley very successfully steers a well-balanced via media between the Berrigans on the left and the Catholic traditionalist movement on the right. He has the wisdom of a Cardinal Newman, the Irish wit of a Peter Finley Dunne, and the insight of an Americanized G.K. Chesterton...
...Charlie Finley...
Kaufmann said that a possible shortage of assistant professors could be solved by encouraging tenured Faculty in less hard-pressed departments to teach courses in other areas. He cited John Finley '28, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature, as an example. Finley teaches the popular course Humanities 3, "The Rise of the Greek Classics...