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...Lindsay Anderson's tough-minded treatment of adolescent rebellion, leaving out none of its cruelty and poetic beauty. As well as a film with value for the future, If ... is one of the loci classics of late sixties student counterculture. Distin Hoffman's Straw Dogs, playing with it, is even bloodier and makes less sense...
...invitation of Tricia Nixon Cox, four-year-old Patrick Lyndon Nugent turned up at the White House to reclaim his occasional place behind the desk in the presidential office. He brought along his mother Loci Johnson Nugent, swiveled happily in the big presidential chair and gleefully pounded the desk with a gavel. At his press conference, young Lyndon fielded questions with all the aplomb of his grandfather. Did he know who used to work here? "Boppa." Who likes elephants? "President Nixon." If he has absorbed from his family any other insights into Boppa's successor, he showed the political...
...blacks make up almost one-third of the population and are overwhelmingly confined to black poverty areas. According to Sociologist Pierre de Vise, research director of the city's hospital planning council, those areas have grown by 25% in the past decade. They are the loci of 220,000 substandard housing units-rotting tenements and rooming houses...
Personally I am concerned with the squirrels though. There are lots of pigeons, more famous ones, in lots of places, e.g. Venice. But the real Harvard squirrel is something entirely different, even from the Boston Common variety: the genius loci had the same effect as Orpheus' lyre...
...consolation the Vagabond turns back the pages of history. Time and space may be the loci of preheusions for Professor Whitehead, but they are nothing to the Vagabond when a fellow spirit calls. Back in 1342 in Germany lived a great man. He masqueraded as a solemn monk, peering from beneath his cowl with an impish grin. He told ribald jokes before embarrased burgers and their daughters in the Church, Square. He put frogs in the Papal Legate's bed. But his escapades led to the scaffold and Till Eulenspeigel danced for the last time, with his feet...