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...audience's reaction to the speech ran the gamut from "terribly exciting" to "dry as hell," but most of the alumni said they were intrigued by Wilson's theoretical approach...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Sociobiology | 3/20/1976 | See Source »

...portray Alan Casper, Native Intelligence is fine; it is as a real novel that it is hampered by its own wit and restless eclecticism. The materials in the novel run a bizarre gamut from an incredibly difficult crossword puzzle (Sokolov offers to send readers the solution, for a dollar), to a lengthy glossary of the Xixi language, to purported New York Times clippings, to a threatening letter Alan writes President Kennedy. The feeling emerges from it all that Sokolov is playing myriad obscure jokes throughout, that some second satiric meaning lurks behind everything. Is the Xixi language full of esoteric...

Author: By Nick Lemann, | Title: Clever to a Fault | 3/19/1976 | See Source »

...part--Faustus is a mature scholar, not a brawny youth--Pajaczkowski plays the doctor as a brash, young man who struts around the stage with a sustained smirk. While this approach works adequately in the comic sequences, Pajaczkowski lacks the dramatic range necessary to convey the full gamut of Faustus' tormented self-questioning. In addition, he experiences no minor difficulty reciting Marlowe's verse, placing his emphases seemingly at random--as though he knew some accents were needed, but neither he nor Morphos could figure out just where. In his last soliloquy, Pajaczkowski finally captures some of the agony...

Author: By Julia M. Klein, | Title: It's a Wise Man . . . | 3/10/1976 | See Source »

...suggested savings ideas ranged the gamut from what Hall terms the "silly"--a "lights-out" campaign, for instance--to more "serious and substantial" ideas that proffer savings of more than $100,000 each...

Author: By Robert T. Garrett, | Title: Hall Goes to Work | 10/25/1975 | See Source »

...this reason he was of interest to us," the author says. "We wanted to know the entire gamut of moods at Harvard...

Author: By James Gleick, | Title: Soviet Daily Finds Harvard Hospitable | 4/30/1975 | See Source »

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