Word: leafed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That curriculum gave students too much flexibility to allow many faculty members to rest easy. In 1973, Dr. Alexander Leaf, Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine and then chairman of the faculty's curriculum committee, called the elective system offered for students' last two years "a frivolous berry-picking operation." The frivolity had to go. Dr. Robert H. Blacklow '55, associate dean of the Medical School, said last week in defense of the concentration requirement, "The philosophy of education is not all hedonistic. Education is not all pleasure." In the spring of 1974, after the current third-year class had accepted...
...coffee growers in southern Brazil are replanting in soybeans, wheat and sugar cane. They fear that the current coffee shortage will lead other farmers to overplant, thereby producing a future surplus and a resulting collapse in the coffee market. There is also a threat of further devastation from coffee leaf rust, a fungus disease that was swept by the trade winds from West Africa to Brazil. About 400 acres of coffee trees in Nicaragua's Carazo province have already been razed in an attempt to stop the rust, and throughout Central America spraying stations have been set up, where...
...musical numbers. Except for a few company arrangements, the songs are solo exercises in the actors' self-examination. Additionally, Berger separates his music and dialogue; all of the numbers come between scenes. Most of the lyrics deal with life's enigmas, which Berger compares to items ranging from a leaf to a television set. While many verses contain cliches and predictable rhymes, "Next Time" and "What Do They Mean?" exhibit more interesting imagery. Though less memorable than the lyrics, the music, also written by Berger, maintains an agreeable tempo. Only the rocker "Do It Now" is hummable, probably because...
...There are some effective scenes. Sports and politics. Hockey and the elections. We begin long ago on the Plains of Abraham, with General Wolfe wearing a Maple Leaf uniform. Wolfe dies and a French farm boy throws away the gun that killed him. The boy doesn't want war any more. When he throws the gun, it becomes a hockey stick and we are in the present...
Quirky Insight. Mikey and Nicky is the work of three gifted people-the two leading actors and the writerdirector, who has been responsible for two of the funniest and most startling comedies of the decade, A New Leaf and The Heartbreak Kid. But here Falk and Cassavetes seem at sea, and May's talent gets lost in all the surrounding craziness, much of which has been well documented. Mikey and Nicky was begun in 1973, but is just now being released after numerous lawsuits. Paramount sued May for breach of contract, trying to repossess a film they already owned...