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...Planning 11-3b could be cancelled by force, are all courses that flirt with mechanisms for social control unacceptable? Professors Banfield and Wilson don't analyze riots the same way most Afro members do. Could parts of their urban policy courses then be censored too? The only present check on the content of Harvard courses--review by the relevant Faculty or department--is rarely used, and though a few bad courses may result, there are not so many as to justify changing Harvard's general policy of letting individual Faculty members teach what they want...
...central story situation is the same: actors pretend to be Air Force bombardiers who flirt with the mimicry of death only to find that, one by one, they are really being killed on their outlandish make-believe bombing missions over Constantinople and Minnesota. The plot might well have been retrieved from Pirandello's wastebasket. Broadway these days is full of preachers who thunder that war is evil and that racial prejudice is hateful, but who seem not to have the slightest compunction about discrimination against good drama...
...with an assembly-line haircut and an inexpensive suit. No one, however, could ignore the 27 works on display. Built of watch springs, mesh, tiny cogs and spirals, the small, precisely balanced wire constructions fluttered and danced at the slightest breath. Bearing cryptic names, such as Hermit, Flirt and L'état c'est moi, they represented virtually all of Haese's sculptural output...
Failure & Regret. The break became public in 1940, when Roosevelt began to flirt with a third term. Garner unhitched himself, offered his own name in opposition, was crushed, swore in Henry Wallace as Vice President and retired to Uvalde, vowing never again to cross the Potomac...
Half a Bottle a Day. On the surface, Smith seems a cheery soul. From his burly, 6-ft., 205-lb. body, conservatively clad figure, pipes a merry, falsetto voice and a wealth of breezy wit. He is an incorrigible flirt-but friends who know him best compare him to St. Anthony and Martin Buber, calling him a kind of tormented saint. Says one of them, the painter Robert Motherwell: "Like myself and Jackson Pollock, he's a Celt. That partly explains his lyricism, his love of talk and drink -and his sense of being a minority...