Word: hand
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...door to Writer John Koffend's office was closed. Researcher Nancy Atkinson, a sheaf of material for this week's Essay in hand, knocked and then tentatively turned the knob. Koffend was lying on the floor - but there was no reason for alarm. "Pardon me," he said, "I was just doing my push...
Wilson is not, however, to be condemned out of hand on the basis of the statistics. First, Harvard does not have the personnel man-for-man to match Columbia or Princeton. Second, while this may be Wilson's best team, the Ivy League in general is better than ever and more balanced than most other Leagues in the country. Columbia and Princeton are national powers; last weekend, for example, Penn beat first place Yale and then last place Brown beat Penn...
...other hand, the Faculty showed SFAC considerable deference Tuesday. The exception to its probation rules the Faculty voted for Dudley's John Fouts was purely a gesture of respect to the Council. And that an entire Faculty meeting centered on SFAC business was itself a landmark. The Faculty showed that it is still resting heavy hopes on the Council, and it now seems certain that any major SFAC resolution will be insured full Faculty consideration...
...spartan format (29 pages mimeographed on one side and stapled together by hand) derives from the fresh and deliberate lack of pretense which has become The Island's trademark. This makes it an appropriate outlet for its material: "It allows us to print things which might not be perfect, but which ought to be read," as one of the three editors explains...
...worshipful new study of his movies (Godard; Seeker & Warburg), the director is "one of the most important artists of our time," worthy of comparison, with Joyce and Vermeer. Pauline Kael of The New Yorker calls Godard "the most exciting director working in movies today." On the other hand, Stanley Kauffmann of the New Republic describes him as "a magician who makes elaborate uninspired gestures and then pulls out of the hat precisely nothing...