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Although Harvard's overall enrollment has remained fairly constant over the last 20 year, the makeup of the student body has changed. In 1961 woman constituted fewer than 20 per cent of the undergraduate population, Eric W. Kurtz '57, director of the Office for Analytic Studies at Harvard, said yesterday, adding that women now make up more than 30 per cent of the student body...
Better Lines. Love, Sidney (NBC, Wednesdays at 9:30 p.m.) is, by default, sweetcom's class act. Tony Randall, the John Gielgud of series TV, has brought his deft good humor to the role of a cranky bachelor of no particular sexual persuasion. Swoosie Kurtz, as Sidney's live-in friend, combines the charm of Sally Field with the comic timing of Soupy Sales-and somehow looks like both. Together they demonstrate that even treacle pudding can pack some savor. Only Kaleena Kiff, 7, is a problem. She is not unbearable; she is not a toy saint...
Could not Heart of Darkness be offset by Heart of Lightness, in which Marlow narrates how the kindly Mr. Kurtz dedicated himself voluntarily to training the tribes along the Nile in personal hygiene? Might not The Call of the Wild be counterbalanced by The Call of the Tame, in which a big, clumsy, good-natured dog named Buck goes on a tour of Hollywood homes, including Lassie's? Who could be offended if An American Tragedy spun off a happy shadow called An American Comedy, in which Clyde Griffiths saves his girlfriend Roberta from drowning and receives...
...worthy. But skeptics are nettled by a number of things: 1) the possibility of a nearby sand bar that could have enabled hoaxers to plant a mechanical monster, 2) the negative has vanished, and 3) Mansi's inability to recall the spot where she took the shot. Paul Kurtz, 55, professor of philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo, reckons that the locals may just be feathering a Ness. "It's about as real," says he, "as Bigfoot, UFOs and the tooth fairy...
...successful is Exeter, in fact, that Principal Stephen Kurtz constantly enjoins students and faculty to pursue "excellence without arrogance." But, Kurtz adds, "I've been teaching 29 years, and I've never seen better teaching and better learning than goes on here...