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...worries in judging the pace of the recovery are badly stalling auto sales and the continuing doldrums in housing. Both industries played major roles in lifting the economy out of past recessions, but few board members expect that they will lend the same robust support this time. Housing starts are running at an annual rate of less than 1 million and are generally not expected to climb much above 1.4 million this year, v. 2.5 million in early 1973. The main reason, as Nathan points out, is that builders still have a full year's supply of finished...
...pallid symbols. The political bosses' strategy to address only non-controversial, non-political issues and to sell Paul as a Mr. Clean figure: Adriana's difficulty in keeping her customers' hands off her backside; her mysterious departure from her working-class neighborhood in Italy--the very relations that lend this affair between a married middle-class engineer and a lower-class waitress more than merely psychological significance become only ponderous ornaments adorning a theme we've seen handled too many times in the past...
...well for the Harvard lightweights and the Sprints are to be won, the varsity must successfully lend off the oars of prime contenders Penn and Rutgers, the J.V. must handle all upset minded crews and the freshmen must row through its Tiger and Quaker challengers...
...when none of the characters avoids two-dimensional typicality. Clara, particularly, as the martyred Working Woman, displays ludicrous malleability in her metamorphosis from Cinderella to Princess at the caprice of the plot. All the romantic music, charming mountain cafes, melting glances and scenic forest idylls De Sica produces cannot lend authenticity to this melodrama, so that the inevitable denouncement is devoid of pathos...
...political controversies that have improperly engrossed the department's energy, simultaneously feels that the Houses are now on the decline. "There is a weaker attachment to the Houses than there used to be. The faculty used to enjoy the attachment. It was an amorphous thing, but it did lend something to student-faculty relations. The change may be a by-product of 1969--the habit of getting to the Houses regularly may have been broken. There is a problem in maintaining momentum...