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...Foreign films. Remember them? Graybeards dissolve in a puddle of fond memories as they recall the days, a few decades back, when movies in French, Swedish, Japanese, Italian and a half-dozen other languages set the medium?s standard for excellence. To be cinematically literate - "cinemate," to borrow a term Time proposed in a 1963 cover story heralding the first New York Film Festival - one had to be able to discuss the hidden narrative meanings and formal innovations of pictures like The Seventh Seal and Last Year at Marienbad. Foreign films had snob appeal and sex appeal. Or they...
...FOND MEMORIES...
...feel lucky to have reunited with their former love at midlife, when they can truly appreciate each other. Just ask Richard and Lynne Allen. "We had both grown through our life experiences by the second time we met," says Lynne. "But we also had those fond memories of our relationship when we were younger. The marriage has been great for both of us." Adds her husband: "She's mellowed and I've mellowed. It's all about compromise...
...heartbreaking background track of casualty reports, we have one advantage over our forerunners of the Vietnam era: direct access to an open and global communications network. I am happy, and lucky, to have made a journalism career on the Internet; building a news operation on the Web carried fond echoes for me of the years I spent at 14 Plympton Street. In all those late-night basement shifts, pasting up flats in the shop and developing plates for the press, The Crimson had taught me at least one thing: the best way to insure a free press...
...still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.” You are a proud Harvard alum, and you are giving back right now because of your gratitude for the school and the principle of reciprocity.Alum, you have either fond or bitter feelings toward Harvard. If you are of the former sort, please channel your positive energy into action. Ask not what Harvard can do for you, but what you can do for Harvard right now. If you are of the latter sort, I challenge you to ask yourself two things...