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...spokesmen occasionally hinted about Government intervention to break the "liberal monopoly" of the national press, the gambit was obviously a partisan effort to pressure rather than persuade. It is different with Professor Ronald H. Coase of the University of Chicago, a British economist with no discernible political ax to grind. He suggests that federal regulation of the press would be appropriate on social and economic principle. In a scholarly paper given before a recent New York City seminar, Coase broadened the Nixonians' argument by challenging the special status of the American press and assaulting the philosophical validity...
...take off for the south of France or the South Seas. He yearns to sit under a tree and find himself. His starchy fiancée, Julia Seton (Robin Pearson Rose), and her even starchier father want Johnny to stay in the marts of finance and be a golden grind. But Johnny's dream of freedom excites Julia's older sister Linda (Charlotte Moore), herself a stifled and smoldering maverick. At play's end, she and Johnny flee together...
...generous frame with flashy shirts and colorful wide ties. Overweight players are also required to follow a ritual called "tea day," consuming nothing but tea two days a week. Barking orders through a cloud of cigar smoke, Merritt teaches pro-style football -tough defense coupled with a grind-it-out, ball-control offense that features short passes...
Administratively, he copes with that viewpoint by limiting the number of patients he sees -- one per half hour for the most part to give them time to talk. Although he admits that if every doctor did that, the Health Services would grind to a halt, he says it suits his style...
Beleagured admissions officials at the Law School should appreciate the bleak picture Bridges paints of the academic grind. "All that stuff about grades is true," Hart's adviser tells him. "You gotta work like hell, no kidding." Hart's friend Kevin, who does work like hell but flunks nevertheless, attempts suicide. Such is the stuff of daily life, the film seems...