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...somehow anti-social. One of these characters is a poet who sips Campari on the steps of the seaside Grand Hotel just outside of town, watching the Nazis make out with the local girls; another an antiquarian who stands in the midst of the snow covered square to inform us that this is the town's largest snowfall "since the ice age," although there have also been large snows in 1694 and 1888, the last one occuring on the 13th of July. He gets hit on the head with a snowball. Fellini makes fun of these characters; in Roma...
...admissions policies. Why should black students come to Harvard? Philip Gay, a minority recruiter in the GSAS, reports that black graduate students feel "alienated" and therefore complete their degree programs and leave as quickly as possible (Crimson, November 5, 1974). Dean McKinney and David Evans, an undergraduate admissions officer, inform us that many black students see Harvard as a white-dominated institution, committed to sheltering "scholars" who promote racist ideas, while systematically discriminating against minority students. Harvard admits that many blacks believe this, yet it does not recognize that their attitude is based on reality and that it consitutes...
Everyone knows he is the new champ. At a feminist party in Manhattan last week, Leading Contender Al Goldstein, executive editor of the pornographic journal Screw, wandered around happily unbothered, but Gilder was repeatedly invited to leave. Three women marched up to inform him that their husbands and boy friends are not impotent-a reference to Gilder's warning that female aggressiveness can affect bedroom performance...
...product of the policies of the U.S. government towards Chile was the military coup that occurred in September 1973, almost three years after Allende's election. The U.S. knew about the coup at least 12 hours in advance but chose not to inform Allende of it. Whether the U.S. actually planned the coup remains in doubt. However, it is clear from the record that the U.S. did all in its power to bring about conditions that would aid a coup by fomenting economic collapse, using the CIA to "destabilize" Allende, maintaining political contacts with anti-Allende elements, funding the opposition...
Lucky Lucan. With its usual discretion, Scotland Yard first announced that it was looking for Lord Lucan, 39, to inform him of the unhappy events that had taken place in his house. Since separating from his wife a year ago, he had been living in a flat close to the town house in order to be near his three children. When he failed to answer its inquiry, the Yard became somewhat more insistent and said that it was seeking him to "help with police inquiries." Finally police issued a worldwide alert and charged the Seventh Earl of Lucan with murder...