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...true that Harvard tends to isolate us from the real world, but some people, like Mr. Abramowitz, are much more isolated than that. After four years, they are unable to see Harvard life in other than the tired stereotypes the Crimson does its part to foster. I liot House is not full of little Podhoretz's, nor, probably, has it ever been. Eliot does indeed have more than its share of students with conservative views, but for those of us who consider ourselves "liberals," (and that's with a small 'I'--the self-conscious "Liberal" Abramowitz misses is better...
...Green Scarf (Associated Artists) introduces a detective named Maitre De-liot (Michael Redgrave), who is a sort of cross between Hercule Poirot and Father Brown, with a dash of old man Karamazov thrown in. Deliot is a French lawyer, an ancient case-horse just about ready for pasture. A bachelor, from the bees in his bonnet to the flies on his vest, he is grimy, grouchy, up to his knees in litter, and almost down to his belt in beard...
...other hand "Thinley's Last Stand" is built around a basically amusing topic--the imposition of an admissions screening process on the Liot House--but none of the implications of its humor are left to the reader's imagination. "Macavitys Rat" picks up the old theme of extra-talented experimental animals and leaves it rather the worse for wear. Two men collaborated on Pygmalion, Mark III," thus making it twice as long and half as funny as it should have been...
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