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...imminent release, and submits even more servilely to the daily humiliations in order not to jeopardize it. His mind is wholly filled with the expectation of domestic happiness, meeting his wife, his family. He never questions the authority that jailed him in the first place. There is no hint of rage or rebellion. The very introduction of the Antigone plot introduces a note of ambiguity, a possible justification of the South African regime...
...servants and Lassiters were at each other's throats, then at least the show would have some spark. But CBS is avoiding all possible controversy, including even the merest hint of racial tension between the black cook and the rest of the Irish staff...
...Harvard and administrators answer questions about the amount of money it has received cryptically, if at all. Last spring, when there were no funds for the program in sight, the same people at Mass Hall or Holyoke Center would talk about Greek studies calmly and with a brave hint of enthusiasm in their voices as they ventured that a professorship in Modern Greek Studies might become a reality in five or six years. Now that a chair has actually been endowed with the necessary $1 million, inquiries about the program seem to grate on official nerves. As usual...
...great 60s junk novel called The Harvard Experiment that was about a college in Cambridge, Mass. (Har-Rad, get it?) where they put all freshman in rooms with members of the opposite sex, just so the could be fully educated. The point is that if you were going to hint plausibly that any American college is a sex haven, you'd hint that it's Harvard. The old tabloid Hearst newspaper in Boston liked that Harvard the best: "HARVARD BARES WILD PARTIES" was its banner headline...
...Even today, most people consider the middle-period works to be the "real" Beethoven; and they admire most of all the tragedies of Shakespeare's middle period. Productions of the four romances are far from frequent, and the Stratford company has never staged Pericles or Cymbeline even once a hint for next season...