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...last hours Geoffrey's business is to reject finally, definitively, all redemptive possibilities: love (represented by the return of his wife Yvonne); ideological commitment (represented by his hall brother Hugh, who was Yvonne's lover); even such mild anodynes as friendship and nonalcoholic amusement. His fate is to touch bottom, literally in a den of thieves, and he is in haste to find it. The intelligence of Gallo's work lies in his recognition that the symbolic values of Under the Volcano's major figures, incidents and landscape are intrinsic and easy to catch. They need...
...booze as by the weight of the cross he bears, a compound of tormented memory and suffering intelligence. There is in his presence a nobility that elicits compassion along with admiration for the actor's work. Jacqueine Bisset and Anthony Andrews tread similarly delicate lines as Yvonne and Hugh, trying to cling to their dreams despite the rude, awakening noises of Geoffrey's self-destruction. With Finney, they slowly draw the viewer across time and distance into an unlikely involvement with highly unlikely people. Some of the rich allusiveness of Lowry's prose may lave been lost...
...case, the subject seems to be of primary interest to University administrators. From the Corporation on down, the plight of Harvard's junior faculty is a hot topic. Senior fellow Hugh Calkins '45 says the Corporation's Appointments Committee, which includes President Bok, wants to see a higher percentage of tenured positions filled from within...
...looks to us as if, in connection with this appointment, there has not been enough attention paid to appointing a woman or minority group person, or, there hasn't been a hard enough search to insure that we're getting the best of the young people,'" says Corporation member Hugh M. Calkins...
...Hugh M. Calkins '45 is the elder statesman of the Corporation; appointed in 1968, he is the senior member and the head of the board's most watched subcommittee, the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR). During debate over the University's investments in companies which do business in South Africa over the last six years, Calkins has been the Corporation's point-man on the issue...