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Dean of the College John B. Fox Jr. '59 has said in the past that postponement of the project for a year is a possibility if Harvard doesn't get the bid it is looking for. However, both Quinn and Gefter suggested that this was unlikely...
Pederasty is a puzzling perversion, which to many experts seems essentially incurable. The only solution, they suggest, is eliminating close contact between pederasts and boys. The disorder does not appear to affect any particular occupational group and remains a rarity among priests. Reporter Editor Thomas Fox says that there is a heightened awareness of child abuse and "parents are more willing to go to court to pursue justice instead of asking the bishop to reassign the priest...
...such caveats should be applied to Back to the Future, directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Zemeckis and Bob Gale. What moviegoer of any age could resist a sprightly romantic comedy on the Oedipal dilemma? As Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox), a pleasant 1985-style teenager, exclaims to his shock and chagrin, "My mom has the hots for me!" This takes some explaining. Marty's pal, an aged, eccentric scientist (Christopher Lloyd), has fashioned a De Lorean car into a functioning time machine. Suddenly, Marty finds himself in 1955, in the bedroom of the 17-year-old girl...
Unlike The Goonies, whose narrative is a rapid succession of hotfoots, Back to the Future has a long fuse that, halfway through, explodes into comic epiphany. Until then, the film is nicely propelled by the ingratiating Fox (from the NBC sitcom Family Ties) and some snappy then-and-now jokes (in 1985 the local theater is showing Orgy American Style, while in 1955 the attraction is a Ronald Reagan western). The choice of year is canny, for 1955 is close to the historical moment when television, rock 'n' roll and kids mounted their takeover of American culture...
President Bok, who has traditionally taken a keen interest in athletic matters, as well as the seven other Ivy League presidents chose not to attend the special convention, which drew college heads than ever before. Reardon and Fox both suggested that the convention's lack of bearing on Harvard prompted Bok to pass up the trip to New Orleans...